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The article examines the number of contributions to scientific journals by authors from various OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries in 1998–2000 according to the commonly used ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) databases SSCI (Social Sciences Citation Index), A&HCI (Arts and Humanities Citation Index) and SCI Expanded (Science Citation Index Expanded). The number of contributions per million inhabitants is related to the main language of the country, the gross domestic product per capita and whether a country is a former socialist country or not. The social sciences, the arts and humanities, and the natural sciences are studied separately. It turns out that there is a tendency for a higher publication rate for English-language countries, slightly lower for countries with small languages, and even smaller for countries with large non-English languages. This is consistent with the hypotheses that there is a bias in the data bases from the ISI such that English-language journals tend to be overrepresented, that scholars from English-language countries write almost exclusively in English, and that scholars from other countries tend to publish less in English and more in their domestic language the larger their domestic language. This calls for caution in using these databases for international comparisons of research activity.

The Modern variant of internationalization of Swedish economics began at the end of the nineteenth century will Wicksell as the first clearly international economist. By that time foreign influences came especially from the German-language area. We concentrate, however, on the period after the Second World war. Our statistics is based oninter alia, the Scandinagian Journal of Economics. English has gradually become the most important language in citations and Swedish dissertations. American influences have become large, and the Swedish ideal of research is very similar to the American one. The evolution is, however, not unequivocal.Internationalization, Americanization, Swedish economics,

In studies on the Cobb-Douglas production function, there has sometimes been a footnote referring to its first use in economic theory. Two different sources seem to be prevailing in these references. One is Wicksteed's Coordination of the Laws of Distribution of 1894, the other is Wicksell's Lectures of 1901 (or sometimes, as in Velupillai's article in the 1973 issue of this journal, one of his essays in the Ekonomisk Tidskrift of 1900). It will be argued that the fust source is wholly false and is due to a mistake by Douglas himself. Concerning Wicksell, we will show that he implicitly used it in a linearly homogeneous form with labor and capital as arguments, even as early as 1895.

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