Economic Logic

The is a cottage industry that produces papers about rankings in the profession, rankings about journal, departments, or people in various s...

Bruno Frey has fallen into disgrace these days as he has been shown to play dangerous games of self-plagiarism, submissions to multiple jou...

I dedicated several posts to Bruno Frey and his chronic self-plagiarism. In retrospect, one should have seen that something was fishy from...

What is the value of the research we do? The typical way we have to evaluate the impact of research is to count citations, and possibly weig...

Citation counts are often used to proxy for the quality of an article, researcher or journal. They are not a perfect measure, everybody agre...

Journal editors are thought to be exceptional scholars who are capable of identifying the best papers and in particular those that will hav...

If you are editor of an Economics journal that seeks to improve and come across a paper entitled "What Makes a Great Journal Great in E...

With the advent of online bibliographic databases like RePEc and SSRN , with the increasing importance of readership statistics in the eval...

When it comes to publication, economists set incredibly high standards. Compared to other fields, rejection rates are higher, editors and es...

Much is made about lead papers in journals. Some editors like to put what they think is the best article of a review in front. Is there any ...

The RePEc blog recently had a post describing some of the roadblocks it faces in exctracting references for its citations analysis. I found...

RePEc just released a list of the most cited recent articles in Economics (or at least from its data), recent being defined as published in...

The RePEc blog has a piece that should be an eye opener to everyone relying on impact factors to establish the quality of a journal. The pu...