Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/110191 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Citation: 
[Journal:] Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal [ISSN:] 1864-6042 [Volume:] 9 [Issue:] 2015-13 [Publisher:] Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) [Place:] Kiel [Year:] 2015 [Pages:] 1-38
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
This paper presents the results of a text based exploratory study of over 20,000 academic articles published in seven top research journals from 1960 - 2010. The goal is to investigate the general research foci of economists over the last fifty years, how (if at all) they have changed over time, and what trends (if any) can be discerned from a broad body of the top academic research in the field. Of the 19 JEL-code based fields studied in the literature, most have retained a constant level of attention over the time period of this study, however, a notable exception is that of macroeconomics which has undergone a significantly diminishing level of research attention in the last couple of decades, across all the journals under study; at the same time, the "microfoundations" of macroeconomic papers appears to be increasing. Other results on co-authorship trends and depth of research articles are also presented.
Subjects: 
text analysis
economics research
research diversity
topic analysis
JEL: 
A11
B4
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Document Type: 
Article

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