Quantity versus Quality: What’s in a (Journal) Name?

We consider the relationship between the rankings and the title length of 159 academic economics journals. Although there is no significant association between these two metrics for the full sample of data, we find that a significant “bathtub” relationship between journal quality and title length emerges when the data are subjected to a rank correlation analysis over sub-samples.

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Year of publication:	2011-02-28
Authors:	Giles, David E.
Institutions:	Department of Economics, University of Victoria
Subject:	Journal rankings \| journal titles \| impact factors \| rank correlation

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Econometrics Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	ISSN 1485-6441 Number 1103 6 pages
Classification:	A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines ; A23 - Graduate ; C01 - Econometrics ; I23 - Higher Education Research Institutions
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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