This article identifies the two approaches to defining a book review. The first defines a book review as a text published in the 'Book Reviews' section of a journal. The second approach involves specifying criteria that a text must satisfy to qualify as a book review and assessing whether a...

We estimate the robustness reproducibility of key results from 17 non-experimental AER papers published in 2013 (8 papers) and 2022/23 (9 papers). We find that many of the results are not robust, with no improvement over time. The fraction of significant robustness tests (p0.05) varies between...

Equivalence testing methods can provide statistically significant evidence that relationships are practically equal to zero. I demonstrate their necessity in a systematic reproduction of estimates defending 135 null claims made in 81 articles from top economics journals. 37-63% of these...

Zhang (2023) used an online, pre-registered, large-scale controlled experiment to test the effect of an endorsement of Joe Biden by the scientific journal Nature on several perceptual and behavioural outcomes. The main results of the paper were the following: the endorsement of Biden caused a...

This paper reviews the impact of replications published as comments in the American Economic Review between 2010 and 2020. We examine their citations and influence on the original papers' subsequent citations. Our results show that comments are barely cited, and they do not affect the original...

We use the negotiations for large-scale open-access agreements between German research institutions and leading academic publishers to study how changes in the attractiveness of various journals affect the publication behavior of researchers in economics and adjacent fields. First, as German...

We study how author-editor and author-reviewer network connectivity and "match" influence editor decisions and reviewer recommendations of economic research at the Journal of Human Resources. Our empirical strategy employs several dimensions of fixed effects to overcome concerns of endogenous...

Purpose - In 2023, the New England Journal of Entrepreneurship (NEJE) reached its 25th anniversary. To commemorate this major milestone as well as entrepreneurship's growth as an academic field, the study employs bibliometric methods to provide key trends and research suggestions for...

In this paper, we will discuss how to get papers published in reputable journals. We will discuss this topic based on my experience. Thus, we will discuss how to get papers published in reputable journals in the areas of Economics, Finance, and Business based on our experience. We first discuss...

We use the negotiations for large-scale open-access agreements between German research institutions and leading academic publishers to study how changes in the attractiveness of various journals affect the publication behavior of researchers in economics and adjacent fields. First, as German...

Presentation of scientific papers is associated with the creation of new scientific journals and the maintenance of established periodicals. This paper discusses and analyzes two challenges to publishing scientific journals in Bulgaria –first, securing a pool of suitable reviewers and second...

This study quantifies and sorts the disciplinarity of finance journals by developing and employing three new measures of journal specialization based on publication keywords. We retrieved 32,232 articles and 116,271 keywords from journals included in the finance section of the 2021 Academic...

An important recent event in the economics field is the introduction of seven new society journals. Using standard iterative ranking methodologies from economics, as well as some new methodologies, we demonstrate the spectacular rise of these journals while updating journal rankings for all...

Replication and constructive controversy are essential for scientific progress. This paper reviews the impact of all replications published as comments in the American Economic Review between 2010 and 2020. We investigate the citation rates of comments and whether a comment affects its original...

Two of the top economics journals have institutional ties to a specific university, the Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) to Harvard University and the Journal of Political Economy (JPE) to the University of Chicago. Researchers from Harvard, but also nearby Massachusetts Institute of...

This study provides an in-depth analysis of cryptocurrency research, examining the trends, geographical distribution, and future research directions within this rapidly evolving field. Using a comprehensive dataset, we consider whether such research varies by journal ranking. Our findings reveal...

"This revised and extended third edition of the highly successful How to Get Published in the Best Management Journals draws on a wealth of knowledge from leading scholars and journal editors to showcase the latest advice in securing publication in the world's top management journals....

Die diesjährige Publikation zum Deutschen Betriebsräte-Preis erscheint zum Thema Öffentlichkeitsarbeit im Betriebsrat. Es werden acht Beispiele Guter Praxis gezeigt, die in den letzten Jahren beim Betriebsräte-Preis zu diesem Thema eingereicht wurden. Dabei wird die Öffentlichkeitsarbeit...