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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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Tracking When Ranking Matters

Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric - 2022

This paper investigates the effect of grouping students by prior achievement into different classes (or schools) in settings where students are competing for admission to programs offering only a limited number of places. We first develop a model that identifies the conditions under which the...

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Citations in Economics : Measurement, Uses and Impacts

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2016

I describe and compare sources of data on citations in economics and the statistics that can be constructed from them. Constructing data sets of the post-publication citation histories of articles published in the "Top 5" journals in the 1970s and the 2000s, I examine distributions and life...

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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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Class Rank and Long-Run Outcomes

Denning, Jeffrey - 2018

This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment – what are the long run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank,...

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A Simple GMM Estimator for the Semi-Parametric Mixed Proportional Hazard Model

Bijwaard, Govert - 2010

Ridder and Woutersen (2003) have shown that under a weak condition on the baseline hazard there exist root-N consistent estimators of the parameters in a semiparametric Mixed Proportional Hazard model with a parametric baseline hazard and unspecified distribution of the unobserved heterogeneity....

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