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The Life Cycle of Scholarly Articles Across Fields of Research
Galiani, Sebastián - 2017
Aggregate citation behavior plays a key role in scientific knowledge diffusion, as citations document the collective and cumulative nature of knowledge production. Additionally, citations are commonly taken as input for several influential evaluative metrics used to assess researchers'...
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Differences in Citation Patterns Across Journal Tiers : The Case of Economics
Anauati, Maria Victoria - 2018
We study how citation patterns differ between journal tiers in economics. Concretely, we analyze citations patterns of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910302
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Nine Facts About Top Journals in Economics
Card, David E. - 2014
. Third, one journal, the American Economic Review, now accounts for 40% of top-5 publications, up from 25% in the 1970s … shortage of journal space. Fifth, the number of authors per paper has increased from 1.3 in 1970 to 2.3 in 2012, partly … has remained relatively stable, with the notable exception of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which climbed from …
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The Life Cycle of Scholars and Papers in Economics -- the "Citation Death Tax"
Aizenman, Joshua - 2008
The information content of academic citations is subject to debate. This paper views premature death as a tragic quot;natural experiment,quot; outlining a methodology identifying the quot;citation death taxquot; -- the impact of death of productive economists on the patterns of their citations....
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Conference Presentations and Academic Publishing
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2019
We 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. We show a positive link between conference presentation and the publishing probability in high-quality journals. Participating...
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The Nber-Rensselaer Scientific Papers Database : Form, Nature, and Function
Adams, James D. - 2009
This article is a guide to the NBER-Rensselaer Scientific Papers Database, which includes more than 2.5 million scientific publications and over 21 million citations to those papers. The data cover an important sample of 110 top U.S. universities and 200 top U.S.-based Ramp;D-performing firms...
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Is Peer Review in Decline?
Ellison, Glenn - 2007
Over the past decade there has been a decline in the fraction of papers in top economics journals written by economists from the highest-ranked economics departments. This paper documents this fact and uses additional data on publications and citations to assess various potential explanations....
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The Inside Scoop : Acceptance and Rejection at the Journal of International Economics
Čerkašin, I. - 2010
There is little work on the inner workings of journals. What factors seem to affect the ability to publish in a journal … submissions to the Journal of International Economics to help answer these questions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759361
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Open Access as a Crude Solution to a Hold-Up Problem in the Two-Sided Market for Academic Journals
McCabe, Mark J. - 2019
The move from traditional to open-access journals—which charge no subscription fees, only submission fees—is gaining support in academia. We analyze a two-sided-market model in which journals cannot commit to subscription fees when authors (who prefer low subscription fees because this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903350
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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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