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A Walk on the Wild Side : 'Predatory' Journals and Information Asymmetries in Scientific Evaluations

Bagues, Manuel F. - 2017

In recent years the academic world has experienced a mushrooming of journals that falsely pretend to be legitimate academic outlets. We study this phenomenon using information from 46,000 researchers seeking promotion in Italian academia. About 5% of them have published in journals included in...

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Aging in Style : Does How We Write Matter?

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Kosnik, Lea-Rachel - 2022

The scholarly impact of academic research matters for academic promotions, influence, relevance to public policy, and others. Focusing on writing style in top-level professional journals, we examine how it changes with age, how stylistic differences and age affect impact, and how style and prior...

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An Examination of the Reliability of Prestigious Scholarly Journals : Evidence and Implications for Decision-Makers

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015

because it is about to appear in prestigious journal X. Moreover, those who allocate levels of research funding, such as in … quality in a mechanical way by using journal prestige ratings. The results in this paper suggest that such tendencies are … publish the best article in an issue of a medium-quality journal like the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics than to …

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Conference Presentations and Academic Publishing

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2019

This paper aims to quantify the contribution of conferences to publication success of more than 4,000 papers presented at three leading economics conferences over the 2006-2012 period. The results show a positive link between conference presentation and the publishing probability in high-quality...

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Unpacking P-Hacking and Publication Bias

Brodeur, Abel; Carrell, Scott; Figlio, David N.; … - 2023

We use unique data from journal submissions to identify and unpack publication bias and p-hacking. We find that initial …

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Publishing and Promotion in Economics : The Tyranny of the Top Five

Heckman, James J. - 2018

This paper examines the relationship between placement of publications in Top Five (T5) journals and receipt of tenure in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U.S. economics departments, we find that T5 publications have a...

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A Decade of Editing the European Economic Review

Eḳshṭain, Tsevi - 2011

few anecdotes to illustrate the work of an academic journal editor …

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Does Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity Dampen Wage Increases?

Stüber, Heiko - 2010

Focusing on the compression of wage cuts, many empirical studies find a high degree of downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR). However, the resulting macroeconomic effects seem to be surprisingly weak. This contradiction can be explained within an intertemporal framework in which DNWR not only...

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The Impact of Scoring Weights on Price and Quality Outcomes : An Application to the Procurement of Welfare-to-Work Contracts

Koning, Pierre - 2013

This paper assesses the effects of changes in scoring weights in auctions, using a unique sample of biddings of private Welfare-to-Work (WTW) organizations to reintegrate groups of unemployed and disabled workers. WTW-organizations did not only bid on prices, but also received points for three...

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Inequality Comparisons with Ordinal Data

Jenkins, Stephen - 2019

Non-intersection of appropriately-defined Generalized Lorenz (GL) curves is equivalent to a unanimous ranking of distributions of ordinal data by all Cowell and Flachaire (Economica 2017) indices of inequality and by a new index based on GL curve areas. Comparisons of life satisfaction...

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