Analyses
of the Academic Journal Market in Economics
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Joshua
S. Gans
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Contents
PART ONE: SUCCESS AND REJECTION IN ECONOMICS
1. Life Among the Econ 3
2. The Young Economist’s Guide to Professional Etiquette 14
3. How are the Might Fallen: Rejected Classic Articles by
Leading Economists 26
4. Aging and Productivity Among Economists 43
PART TWO: REFEREES AND EDITORS
5. Facts and Myths About Refereeing 55
6. Is There Value Added from the Review Process in Economics?
Preliminary Evidence from Authors 67
7.
The Effects of Double-Blind
versus Single-Blind Reviewing:
Experimental Evidence from the American Economic Review 80
8.
Favoritism versus Search for Good
Papers: Empirical Evidence
Regarding the Behavior of Journal Editors 118
9. Why Referees are not Paid (Enough) 129
PART THREE: TO CO-AUTHOR OR NOT TO CO-AUTHOR
10. Estimates of the
Returns to Quality and Coauthorship in
Economic Academia 147
11. Trends in Multi-Authored Papers in Economics 161
12. First Author Conditions 168
PART FOUR: THE INFLUENCE OF ECONOMICS JOURNALS
13. The Journals of Economics 197
14.
The Scholarly Journal
Literature of Economics: A Historical
Profile of the AER, JPE, and QJE 228
15. The Relative Impacts of Economics Journals: 1970-1990 244
Index 287