Economist on "A New Way to Rank Journals"
Instead of the traditional characterization (top 5, top field, etc.), why not use natural cutoff points? Consider the IDEAS 10-Yr recursive discounted rankings (excluding survey journals and moving AER...
View ArticleEconomist on "100+ days is unreasonable for finance journal review"
I'm getting quite upset.
View ArticleEconomist on "How do you get on editorial boards?"
I don't mean editor / associate editor, but the extended lists of people who are more or less glorified regular reviewers.Reason I ask is that I guest edited a journal special issue a few years back,...
View ArticleEconomist on "Academic writing styles"
There are two types of academic papers: Those written using short sentences that cut straight to the point; and those written using long sentences that could have been written by Jane Austen or Oscar...
View ArticleEconomist on "Just got a very strange referee report"
The referees at a top field offered an R&R and asked me to do an extension which really challenged my math skills. I pulled it off though, at least I thought so. The second round report is another...
View ArticleEconomist on "Science journal and economkcs"
I saw on Twitter that Science will allow papers already published on NBER Working paper series to be considered for publication. That seems to shift (at the margin) that journal as one of our target...
View ArticleEconomist on "Change in IZA journals"
Any idea why the IZA journals merged? And what that means for the editorial policy/ referee process?
View ArticleEconomist on "Where to discuss results in a paper"
Where is best to critically compare your results to related studies? In the introduction, in the section where you report results, in conclusion, in a special section called "Discussion"? Referees said...
View ArticleEconomist on "Ordering of co-authors based on chain of command"
The think tank that I work at lists co-authors based on the organogram. For example, the executive director would always be first, then the research fellow, and then the research associate. Usually the...
View ArticleEconomist on "Data on blood donations in the US?"
Recently I had a chat with someone about the fraction of people that are donating blood in the US (by states) and whether this has changed over time. However, I could not find any data on that. Is...
View ArticleEconomist on "A new econ journal ranking"
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/obes.12185/epdfThe ranking generated by the algorithm can be viewed as a measure of the average quality of the papers published in the journal, as judged by...
View ArticleEconomist on "What do editors at big journals do?"
Other than assigning editors. Do they do copy editing?
View ArticleEconomist on "Guess how much AEJ editors make"
I'll post the correct answer in a few hours, but guess what Duflo makes to edit AEJ: Applied. And if you know of compensation for other journals please post that too. I couldn't believe when I heard it.
View ArticleEconomist on "What percentage of papers sent to the top 5 are from LRM or...
If you're an LRM, not in the club, should you even bother sending a paper to a top 5, especially with the rise of submission fees? Even more especially now that you know the editors are being paid 100k...
View ArticleEconomist on "The Economic Journal"
What is the inside scoop on this journal? Checked the wiki but looking for more info.
View ArticleEconomist on "Marketing science in econ/strategy group at business school"
How much would that be valued?
View ArticleEconomist on "European Economic Review"
Top field/2 tier general interest? Which ranking tells an accurate position for this journal? Which ranking is the best for all journals? A guy in our department tried to propose it be considered the...
View ArticleEconomist on "Which financial journal most friendly to macro-ish papers?"
quantitative macro models with financial friction / misallocation stuff. thinking about trying to send a paper there.
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