Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/80724 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
DICE Discussion Paper No. 103
Publisher: 
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Düsseldorf
Abstract: 
This is paper analyses the interrelationship between perceived journal relevance and reputation. Based on a survey of 705 members of the German Economic Association, we find a strong interrelationship between journal reputation and relevance where a journal's perceived relevance has a stronger effect on the journal's reputation than vice versa. Moreover, past journal ratings conducted by the Handelsblatt and the German Economic Association (GEA) directly affect journals' reputation among German economists and indirectly also their perceived relevance, but the effect on reputation is more than twice as large as the effect on perceived relevance. In general, citations have a non-linear impact on perceived journal reputation and relevance. While the number of landmark articles published in a journal increases reputation, an increase in the so-called H-index even tends to decrease a journal's perceived relevance, as long as this is not simultaneously reflected in a higher Handelsblatt- and/or GEA-rating. We also identify significant differences in the views on journal relevance and reputation between different age groups.
Subjects: 
Economic Journals
Academic Journals
Reputation
Relevance
Rigor
Economists
Fractional Response Models
JEL: 
A11
A14
I23
L82
ISBN: 
978-386-30410-2-1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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