Leadership in Scholarship: Editors' Influence on the Profession's Narrative

Ali Onder, Sergey Popov and Sascha Schweitzer ()
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Sascha Schweitzer: University of Bayreuth

No E2018/2, Cardiff Economics Working Papers from Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Economics Section

Abstract: Academic journals disseminate new knowledge, and therefore can influence the direction and composition of ongoing research by choosing what to publish. We study the influence of editors and coeditors of the American Economic Review (AER) on the topic structure of papers published in the AER between 1976 and 2013 using a textual analysis of manuscripts. We compare AER's topic structure to that of the other top general interest journals. The appointment of new AER editors, while accompanied by a minor comovement of AER topics towards topics of editor's post-appointment publications, serves more to premediate trends in the other Top 5 journals.

Keywords: Text Search; Topical Analysis; Academia; Knowledge Dissemination; In- fluence; Journals; Editors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 A14 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2018-12
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