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Determination of strategic directions for development of Russian journals included in the international database Web of Science requires improvement of methods for assessing their level. The article proposes an approach, the essence of which is determined by the use of bibliometric analysis methods for a comprehensive assessment of the state of Russian economic journals, based on the indicators obtained from both international and national citation systems. Our data sources include indices that form the core of Web of Science and the Russian Science Citation Index. We assess the state of 18 Russian economic journals, including the journal Economic and Social Changes: Facts, Trends, Forecast issued by Vologda Research Center of RAS. We summarize the experience of this journal in improving its international visibility. We define the factors that impede the integration of Russian journals into the world scientific and information space and outline strategic tasks that should be addressed so that the journals’ position in the international space could be improved. The results obtained can be used by scientific organizations and editors to make decisions on the development of periodicals. The conclusions of our study are important for discussing the problem related to choosing approaches and criteria for evaluating scientific journals

The paper considers the next stage of formation of the Russian market of economic journals, which is characterized by its clear division into two segments – external and internal. The external segment contains publications included in the international databases Scopus and Web of Science (WoS), the internal segment covers publications that are not included in these databases. To reflect the changes that have occurred in the market, we upgrade the methodology for compiling the Rating of Russia’s Leading Economic Journals (RLEJ). The innovations affect the subsystem of expert assessment of publications included in the external segment, taking into account the differentiation of Scopus and WoS databases on quartiles, as well as the subsystem of market representation, taking into account the availability of Russian and English versions of journals. We provide the results of the fifth wave of RLEJ rating in the form of a Diamond List (top 13 journals) and a List of Journals of the Second Tier, consisting of 12 titles. We analyze the reshuffling of journals in comparison with previous years; we show that Russia already has 19 economic publications with international certification, of which eight publications have double certification (both Scopus and WoS). We consider several stylized examples of success and failure of journals; this allows us to determine the outlines of a general model for development of publications of the international level. In particular, we review the work of the heads of journals “at the top” – as drivers of their development through establishing external relations and finding financial resources, and their work “at the bottom” – as organizers of local scientific communities and exclusive intermediaries between authors and professional translators. Certain changes are pointed out in the employment relationship with highly qualified translators; now they are characterized by greater flexibility compared to the previous period. We also consider medium-and long-term implications of the emergence of two market segments of Russian economic journals

We study the evolution of topics in economics and their geographical specialization by analyzing 13,233 papers from seven top journals between 1985 and 2012 and their forward citations. The share of U.S. publications declines from 75% to 64% with a corresponding increase of the European share from 12% to 24%. We use topic modeling and document the evolution of the discipline over 27 years. We estimate, with a quasi‐structural model, the citation lag distribution for 18 different topics and three large geographical areas. The modal citation lag is about 6.7 years in the entire sample and 4.8 years for citations from the top 100 journals. We quantify (1) the home bias effect in citations, (2) how it fades away over time, (3) the long lasting impact of U.S. publications vis‐a‐vis other geographical areas, and (4) the higher speed of diffusion and faster obsolescence in the United States. (JEL A14, I23, O33, A11)

Znanstveni časopisi predstavljaju ključan medij za znanstveno komuniciranje, a za knjižničare izvor za analizu znanstvene produktivnost. Cilj je rada analizirati hrvatske znanstvene i stručne časopise iz polja ekonomije pomoću kvantitativnog pomagala Journal Citation Report (JCR) baze Web of Science i metrijskog pokazatelja SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) o časopisima u Scopusu. Svrha je rada omogućiti znanstvenicima iz ekonomije pregled zastupljenosti hrvatskih ekonomskih časopisa u relevantnim bazama. Uzorak obuhvaća 69 aktivnih časopisa iz ekonomije na Portalu hrvatskih znanstvenih i stručnih časopisa – Hrčak. Metodologija rada analiza je časopisa na Hrčku kako bi se saznalo koji su časopisi indeksirani u citatnim bazama Web of Science i Scopus, a zatim analiza prema parametrima: najbolje rangirani časopis prema čimbeniku odjeka u JCR i prema SJR indikatoru, najcitiraniji članak te najproduktivniji autori. Ovim istraživanjem dobio se uvid u hrvatske časopise indeksirane u bazama kategorije a1 prema Pravilniku o uvjetima za izbor u znanstvena zvanja te uvid u znanstvenu produktivnost znanstvenika unutar polja ekonomije., Scientific journals are a key medium for scientific communication, and for librarians a main source for analyzing scientific productivity. The aim of this paper is to analyze Croatian scientific and professional journals in the field of economics using the quantitative tool Journal Citation Report (JCR) of the Web of Science database and the metric indicator SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) on journals in Scopus. The purpose of this paper is to enable economy scientists to present the overview of Croatian economic journals in relevant databases. The sample includes 69 active journals in economics on the Portal of Croatian scientific and professional journals - Hrčak. The used method is the analysis of journals on Hrčak to find out which journals are indexed in Web of Science and Scopus citation databases, together with the analysis by following parameters: best ranked journal by impact factor in JCR and SJR indicator, the most cited article and most productive authors. This research provided insight into Croatian journals indexed in databases of category a1 according to the Rule book on Conditions for Selection in Scientific Professions as well as it gave insight into the scientific productivity of scientists within the field of economics.

Journal rankings often show significant changes compared to previous rankings. This gives rise to the question of how well estimated the rank of a journal is. In this contribution, we consider uncertainty in a ranking of economics journals. We use the invariant method of Pinski and Narin to rank the journals. We propose an uncertainty measure, which is based on a bootstrap approach. The measure is the average absolute change in rank, which we see as a reasonable uncertainty measure regarding rankings. We further calculate, based on the bootstrap method, 95% confidence interval for the observed values of the invariant method. We show that ranks of the highest, as well as the lowest, ranked journals are well estimated, while there is a high degree of uncertainty regarding the rank of many mid-ranked journals. The distribution of the underlying measure is useful for identifying groups of journals that are more or less of the same quality (from the point of view of the invariant measure). The journal with the highest observed value of the invariant measure, Journal of Political Economy, has the best performance and constitutes a singleton, whereas Quarterly Journal of Economics and Econometrica form the next group (there is a slight overlap between the two with respect to confidence intervals). The journals ranked between about 190–230 form another group in which there are no major quality differences between the journals, as the confidence intervals are overlapping.

The article reveals the ideology and algorithm of building a Russian economic journal consensus ranking, which combines the Muraviev’s, Sterligov’s, Balatsky-Ekimova’s and Rubinstein’s rankings of Russian economic journal. Currently they are the most popular private rankings. They use both an expert and bibliometric data and the hybrid procedures for ranking journals. The combination of these ranking products is analogous to the law of large numbers and gives a more balanced and objective assessment of domestic economic journals. An overview of the attempts to construct a similar aggregate journal ranking by Western experts is given in this article. That proves the validity of such author's initiative in relation to Russia. Procedures for translating qualitative assessments of journals into digital equivalent and back were used in the construction of the consensual ranking. The ranking allowed to select the best Russian economic journals and to form the so-called Diamond List, which includes 13 of the best periodicals in the economy. Analysis of the consensus ranking revealed a number of features. So, it shown that consensus is observed only for a strictly limited number of journals – 13–15 and then the consistency of expert assessments starts to diverge. Also weak elements were identified in the composition of the Diamond List. The practical significance of the rating and the possibility of its further use were also discussed in this article. Views: 166

Продолжено начатое в первой части статьи исследование российского экономического сообщества на основе анализа результатов опроса российских экономистов и изучение его мнения относительно исходной выборки научных журналов. Построены паттерны, характеризующие представление российского экономического сообщества о своей структуре. Изучены представления об интересе, престиже и научном уровне экономических журналов со стороны подгрупп данного сообщества, полученных на основе построенных паттернов. Рассмотрена взаимосвязь между полученными рейтингами журналов и паттернами респондентов., The study is continued of the Russian economic community based on the analysis of a survey of the Russian economists and of the opinion of this community on the selection of scientific journals. Patterns are constructed characterizing the Russian economic community selfimage of its structure. The vision on the part of subgroups of this community is studied of interest, prestige and scientific rate of economic journals, based on the patterns constructed. The correlation is considered between journals ratings and respondents patterns obtained., №4 (2019)

Проведен анализ структуры российского академического сообщества экономистов по результатам опроса участников нескольких российских конференций по экономике, а также анализ мнения этого сообщества о некоторых российских научных журналах по экономике и смежным дисциплинам. В первой части работы проведено разбиение сообщества экономистов на три основные группы: преподавателей в университетах, академических исследователей и экспертов-аналитиков, каждую из которых, в свою очередь, условно можно разделить на «продвинутых» и «традиционных» специалистов. На основе мнения данного сообщества о научной важности, престиже и интересе к некоторым экономическим журналам построены их рейтинги, отражающие предпочтения различных групп., The paper is focused on the analysis of the structure of Russian academic economic community based on a survey of participants of several Russian economic conferences, and on the analysis of the opinion of this community on some Russian scientific journals on economics and related disciplines. The first part of the work is devoted to the division of the economic community into three main groups: university professors, academic researchers and expert analysts, each of which can be conventionally split into «advanced» and «traditional» specialists. The opinion of the community and its subgroups about scientific importance, prestige and interest in some economic journals was studied and several ratings of these journals were built based on studied opinion., №3 (2019)

Este artículo estudia la revista Economía Española (1933-1936) como uno de los canales institucionales de divulgación de la ciencia económica durante los años 30. La importancia de la revista en el ámbito de la economía y la contribución de los principales economistas españoles del periodo hacen de la misma un observatorio que ofrece una fiel visión del estado de la ciencia económica en España tanto a nivel teórico, aplicado como institucional. Su estudio también nos permite valorar el reconocimiento público de la comunidad de economistas y realizar una primera aproximación a la divulgación e influencia de las ideas de los economistas en la esfera pública española durante el periodo de la II República. The institutional development of economics proves to be one of the most fruitful fields of research in countries where original contributions to the science are uncommon. This article focuses on the journal Economía Española (1933-1936) as one of the main channels of diffusion of economic analysis in Spain during the 1930s. Given the significance of the journal and its prestigious contributors, its analysis provides a faithful account of the state of political economy during the period at a theoretical, applied, and institutional level. Similarly, a primary approach is presented on the level of public acknowledgement of the economist community and the permeating of their ideas into the public sphere during the period of the Spanish Second Republic.

Has the global financial crisis of 2007ff had a visible impact on the economics profession? To answer this question we employ a bibliometric approach and compare the content and orientation of economic literature before and after the crisis with reference to two different samples: A large-scale sample consisting of more than 440,000 articles published between 1956 and 2016 and a smaller sample of 400 top-cited papers before and after the crisis. Our results suggest that - unlike the Great Depression of the 1930s - the current financial crisis did not lead to any major theoretical or methodological changes in contemporary economics, although the topic of financial instability received increased attention after the crisis.

The paper considers a new stage in the formation of the Russian market of economic journals, the stage at which an increasing number of them are accepted for coverage in international databases such as Scopus and Web of Science. In order to make an adequate assessment of the qualitative changes that have occurred in the market, we propose to introduce significant adjustments to the methodology for compiling the academic Rating of leading Russian economic journals. The adjustments affect both the subsystem of scientometric indicators where it takes into account the potential of high citations, and the subsystem of expert evaluation where it takes into account the publication’s inclusion in the databases Scopus and Web of Science (WoS). We provide the results of the 4th wave of the Rating of leading Russian economic journals presented in the form of the Diamond List and the List of the second tier of journals. We analyze the shifts in the positions of the journals in comparison with previous years; we show that Russia already has 15 economic publications with international certification, among which five publications have double certification (both Scopus and WoS). The figures show that a new qualitative round of competition has begun among the journals that have received international recognition. We prove that a journal’s success or failure in its efforts to be included in international databases depends on whether its management is willing to follow the new rules and standards. This is largely the reason why many domestic journals have lost their positions. The following are considered as typical strategies a journal should use to achieve success: to implement a sequence of efforts to be accepted for coverage in international databases; to “hunt” for best authors; to provide a flexible peer review system; to publish a full-scale English version of the journal. We substantiate a new publishing paradigm, according to which Russian economists in the coming years will reconsider their views in favor of placing their papers in first-rate domestic publications rather than publishing them in second-rate foreign journals

The foundation of specialised economic journals was one of the main traits in the process of institutionalisation of political economy in 19th century Western Europe. Spain joined this trend at an early stage and in the 1850s and 1860s some specialised, albeit ephemeral, journals sponsored by the liberal school of economic thought – the Economist School – emerged. However, when these reviews ceased publication, Spanish economists lacked specialised periodicals as an outlet for their contributions. Miscellaneous literary reviews addressing a wider audience represented an alternative for the diffusion of economic papers into educated society, sharing space with many other scientific and literary disciplines. This paper analyses the presence of texts on political economy in four of the most important of these reviews in the period 1868-1914, when Spain lacked economic publications. In spite of not being specialised reviews, these publications played a central role in the process of diffusion and popularisation of political economy as a valuable field of knowledge, acting as a good substitute for specifically economic journals. La creación de revistas especializadas en economía es uno de los rasgos importantes del proceso de institucionalización de la economía política en Europa en el siglo XIX. En España algunas revistas especializadas de breve vida vinculadas a la Escuela Economista aparecieron en las décadas de 1850- 1860. Desde su cierre hasta la segunda década del siglo XX no existieron revistas específicamente económicas en España. Las publicaciones periódicas de carácter cultural y literario ofrecieron una alternativa para la difusión de artículos sobre cuestiones económicas, compartiendo espacio con otras disciplinas científicas, literarias y sociales. Este artículo analiza la presencia de textos económicos en las más importantes de estas revistas entre 1868 y 1914. La conclusión es que, a pesar de no ser un marco especializado, estas publicaciones jugaron un papel importante en el proceso de difusión y popularización de la economía como un valioso campo de conocimiento, constituyendo un buen sustituto para la ausencia de publicaciones especializadas. Financial support has also been provided by the research project ECO2012-39169-C03-03 (Ministry of Science, Spain), the research groups GRGDEP (XREPP) and SGR 1345 (Gov. of Catalonia) and the Centre d’Estudis Antoni de Capmany.

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The exploratory analysis developed in this paper relies on the hypothesis that each editor possesses some power in the definition of the editorial policy of her journal. Consequently if the same scholar sits on the board of editors of two journals, those journals could have some common elements in their editorial policies. The proximity of the editorial policies of two scientific journals can be assessed by the number of common editors sitting on their boards. A database of all editors of ECONLIT journals is used. The structure of the network generated by interlocking editorship is explored by applying the instruments of network analysis. Evidences have been found of a compact network containing different components. This is interpreted as the result of a plurality of perspectives about the appropriate methods for the investigation of problems and the construction of theories within the domain of economics.

This is paper analyses the interrelationship between perceived journal relevance and reputation. Based on a survey of 705 members of the German Economic Association, we find a strong interrelationship between journal reputation and relevance where a journal's perceived relevance has a stronger effect on the journal's reputation than vice versa. Moreover, past journal ratings conducted by the Handelsblatt and the German Economic Association (GEA) directly affect journals' reputation among German economists and indirectly also their perceived relevance, but the effect on reputation is more than twice as large as the effect on perceived relevance. In general, citations have a non-linear impact on perceived journal reputation and relevance. While the number of landmark articles published in a journal increases reputation, an increase in the so-called H-index even tends to decrease a journal's perceived relevance, as long as this is not simultaneously reflected in a higher Handelsblatt- and/or GEA-rating. We also identify significant differences in the views on journal relevance and reputation between different age groups.

The purpose of this paper is to rank economic journals in the broader field of policy and political science. By using one composite input and one composite output the paper ranks 52 journals in a linear programming setting using data for the time period of 1996-2010. In addition for the first time three different quality ranking reports have been incorporated into a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) modelling problem in order to classify these journals into four categories (‘A’ to ‘D’). The rankings suggest that the journals with the highest rankings are American Political Science Review, Research Policy, The China Quarterly, Public Choice and Journal of Conflict Resolution.

The purpose of this paper is to rank economic journals in the broader field of sociology and demography. By using one composite input and one composite output the paper ranks 40 journals in a linear programming setting using data for the time period of 1996-2010. In addition for the first time three different quality ranking reports have been incorporated into a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) modelling problem in order to classify these journals into four categories (‘A’ to ‘D’).

A quarter of a century is a remarkable outcome for a scientific journal. On the one hand, the timespan is long enough to map the co-evolution of its discipline and of its editorial context, and to enrich the debate of the history of science. On the other hand, the mass of its articles is large enough to identify the structural characteristics of its typical contents, the general profile of its representative authors, and to orient eventual submission decisions. With these two aims, the paper presents a «snapshot» of the last 27 years of the Italian economics journal Economia Politica. Looking at the JEL (Journal of Economic Literature) codes of its articles and at the bibliographic info of its authors, some distinguishing features are identified, along with some structural changes occurred along its history. The journal distinguishes as a «generalist» one (as opposed to «specialist» journals), with a remarkable distribution of subjects, but with some specializations too. In the last ten years, it has undergone some important changes. In particular, a substantial boost of internationalisation (not only in terms of publication languages, but also in terms of authorships), an increasing weight of co-authorships (and of non academic authorships, though to a lesser extent), a widening of the topics coverage, an increased specialisation on the growth and development implications of technological change, and a new focus on cutting-edge issues of industrial organization (e.g. firm strategy and organization). In terms of authorships, the journal distinguishes for a balanced ratio between senior professors (or equivalent) and junior researchers (or equivalent), towards whose contributions it shows a substantial propensity. In spite of the long editorial history of a group of Italian academics, the distribution of the authors’ affiliations is far from concentrated. The distribution of their faculties is instead dominated by those of economics, but with relevant shares of other surrounding disciplines, such as political sciences and law.

This paper analyzes the citation patterns of the central banks of the 15 largest monetary areas of the world that had an active working paper series in 2010. It proceeds to construct a novel journal ranking that is more suited for monetary authorities than the academic journal rankings currently in vogue. We report individual country rankings as well as the global rankings. While important regional differences emerge, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and the Journal of Finance stand out as the top outlets in the global ranking. Sweden's Riksbanken appears to be the monetary authority that is most finely tuned with academia, followed by the European Central Bank.

An exploratory analysis of the crossed presence (interlocking editorship) of the same scholars in the editorial boards of Italian and international economic journals is developed. The position and the degree of integration of Italian journals in the worldwide network of economic journals is studied with network analysis techniques and a ranking of Italian journals, based on a measure of centrality, is proposed. Then relatively compact groups of international journals are individuated, representing different specialized subfield or different methodological approaches to the study of economics. The analysis of the relative position of Italian journals in those groups suggests that Italian journals are not connected to the cores of the various schools operating at an international level, with the only exception of the history of economic thought.

This short paper presents some preliminary results of an ongoing research work focusing on richness and diversity of economic literature. The key idea is that each article published in an economic journal retains multiple identities. These multiple identities are captured through the use of Jel codes. A sample of ten top generalist journals has been selected. The relative abundance of all Jel categories has been computed for the period 2000-2006. Moreover, a degree of diversity has been proposed for both the sampled journals and the entire Econlit database.

The present paper examines the links between self-citation and authors’ co-incidence with impact factors of economic journals indexed in ISC. It is essentially a scientometric research employing citation analysis and literature survey. Data was collected by querying ISC and leafing through the journals studied. Self-citation, authors’ co-incidence and impact factor of the journal studied formed the variables. Correlation analysis indicated that there is a significance between authors’ self-citations and co-incidence with impact factor of the journals studied. Significance was also found between authors’ co-incidence and self-citation of the journals studied.