On the Influence of Top Journals

Lorenzo Ductor, Sanjeev Goyal, Marco van der Leij and Gustavo Nicolas Paez
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Gustavo Nicolas Paez: Myanmar Development Institute

No 20-019/II, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers from Tinbergen Institute

Abstract: We study the evolution of the influence of journals over the period 1970-2017. In the early 1970's, a number of journals had similar influence, but by 1995, the `Top 5' journals, QJE, AER, RES, Econometrica, and JPE, had acquired a major lead. This dominance has remained more or less unchanged since 1995. To place these developments in a broader context, we also study trends in sociology. The trends there have gone the other way; the field journals rose in influence, relative to the Top General journals. A model of journals as platforms is developed to understand these trends across time and across disciplines.

Keywords: research impact; Top 5 journals; academic publishing; citations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 D85 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-04-19
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Working Paper: On the Influence of Top Journals (2020)
Working Paper: On the Inuence of Top Journals (2020)
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