Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/183469 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 1240
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
We study to what degree authors who publish in the five most prestigious journals in economics have previously published there and in which world region they are based. Al­though still high, the concentration of U.S.-based and previously published top-five authors has decreased. This trend is driven by increased co-authorship between U.S. and non-U.S. scholars and between scholars with and without previous top-five articles. Only around 5 percent of all articles each year are written solely by first-time authors from outside the U.S., and this share has not increased since the mid-1990s. Against this background, we argue that European institutions should be wary of putting too much emphasis on publishing in these five journals. Both the advancement and diversity of the economics discipline may otherwise suffer.
Subjects: 
Bibliometrics
Impact of research
Ranking
Research output
Research productivity
JEL: 
A11
A13
A14
B41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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