Factors determining authors’ willingness to wait for editorial decisions from economic history journals

Eline Poelmans and Sandra Rousseau
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Eline Poelmans: KU Leuven

Scientometrics, 2015, vol. 102, issue 2, No 13, 1347-1374

Abstract: Abstract In this contribution, we measure how long researchers are willing to wait (WTW) for an editorial decision on the acceptance or rejection of a submitted manuscript. This measure serves as a proxy for the expected value of a publication to a researcher in the field of economic, business and financial history. We analyze how this WTW measure varies with the characteristics of the submitting authors themselves. We distinguish the impact of personal characteristics (including age, gender and geographic location) as well as work-related characteristics (including research discipline, affiliation and academic position). To identify the factors determining economic history authors’ WTW for editorial decisions, we use a valuation technique known as stated choice experiments. Our results show that respondents found the standing of the journal to be at least as important as its ISI impact factor. Moreover, we find differences in publication culture between economic and history departments. Overall, researchers’ willingness to wait is influenced to a greater extent by the research discipline in which the respondents are active (history vs. economics), than by their personal characteristics (e.g. the education or the type of Ph.D. they obtained).

Keywords: Willingness-to-wait; Manuscript submissions; Economic history; Stated choice experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 C25 N00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-014-1469-2

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