Unobserved heterogeneity is a serious but often neglected problem in structural equation modelling (SEM) challenging the validity of many empirical results. Recently, a finite mixture approach to SEM has been proposed to resolve this problem but until now only a few studies analyse the...

Evaluation of economic journals is helpful to improve the quality of these journals. In this study, we adopt a new structural equation dimension reduction method to evaluate economics journals. We classify evaluation indexes based on cluster analysis and factor analysis to establish a structural...