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Academic Journals, Publishing

More journal comparisons

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on comparing journals by using the full distribution of their articles’ citations. I’m working on putting together a concise summary of these distributions, but in the meantime I thought I’d show two more interesting comparisons. The first compares the 2016-2021 distribution of top-5 econ journals’ annual […]

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Review of Economic Studies

A new way to compare journals

Journal rankings are often based on average citation metrics. But a journal can have high citation counts because it published a few great articles and many mediocre ones or because it published many good articles. A single number per journal also cannot be used to figure out how much overlap there is in the distribution […]

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Academic Journals, Peer review, Publishing

How to address reviewer comments

You got a revise-and-resubmit request from a journal – congratulations! What now?

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Review of Economic Studies

Representation of countries in economics articles

Today, we’re using Academic Sequitur data to examine the representation of countries in economics articles. The exercise is simple*: if a country name appears in the title or abstract, we count that article as representing that country. An article can represent more than one country. Rather than looking at the total count of articles, we […]

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