What Has Mattered to Economics Since 1970

Kim, E Han; Morse, Adair; Zingales, Luigi

doi:10.2139/ssrn.927429

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“…(Compared with KMS, which used citations from 1994 to 1998 reported in the 1998 issue of JCR.) Hence, to the extent that citation patterns change over time, which they do as persuasively shown by Kim et al (2006), the degree of overlap between these sets of weights is reduced.…”

Section: Measures Based On Weighted Publications (Kms Impact Factor mentioning

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How Should Research Performance Be Measured? A Study of Swedish Economists*

Henrekson

Waldenström

2011

The Manchester School

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Billions are allocated annually to university research. Increased specialisation and international integration of research and researchers have sharply raised the need for comparisons of performance across fields, institutions and individual researchers. However, there is still no consensus regarding how such rankings should be conducted and what output measures to use. We rank all full professors in a particular discipline, economics, in one country using seven established, and some of them commonly used, measures of research performance. We show both that the rank order varies greatly across measures, and that depending on the measure used the distribution of total research output is valued very differently.

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Section: Measures Based On Weighted Publications (Kms Impact Factor mentioning

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How Should Research Performance Be Measured? A Study of Swedish Economists*

Henrekson

Waldenström

2011

The Manchester School

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“…Durden and Ellis (1991) listed the most oft-cited articles in the AER broken down by subject area. Kim, Morse, and Zingales (2006) examined all the articles from 1970 to 2005 that received more than 500 citations. They used the EconLit database to identify the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) Codes associated with each article.…”

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Trend of Subjects Published in Economics Journals 1969-2007

Kelly

Bruestle

2010

Economic Inquiry

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We describe the evolution of subject areas published in economics over four decades and calculate the percentage of articles published in each Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) subject category, with and without weighting by file://Eigenfactor.com's Article Influence (AI). Finance, Development, and Industrial Organization have seen their share of total articles rise over the past four decades while Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Labor have seen their share fall. We use JEL codes to define specialty journals and find that more specialty journals tend to increase the overall percentage share for that subject. This effect is ambiguous when re‐weighted by AI. (JEL A11, A14)

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“…The JEL classification system was developed over 100 years ago as a method of classifying scholarly literature in the field of economics. 3 It is now the standard classification system used by most researchers in the field, and JEL codes are prevalent across national and international economics journals and numerous classification databases such as EBSCO and EconLit. JEL codes are used by employers to identify researchers and their work, they are used by journalists to find articles relevant to understanding contemporary policy topics, they are used by online portals to categorize work, and they are often used by academics in the field when trying to categorize and understand the kind of research that gets published in top academic journals (Durden and Ellis, 1993;Kim et al, 2006;Kelly and Bruestle, 2011;Card and DellaVigna, 2013;Grijalva and Nowell, 2014;Rath and Wohlrabe, 2015). While the usefulness of the JEL code classification system is without controversy, analyses of the JEL code classification system itself are rare.…”

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A Survey of Jel Codes: What Do They Mean and Are They Used Consistently?

Kosnik

2017

Journal of Economic Surveys

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Abstract. The use and prevalence of JEL code categorization is wide in the field of economics, but what do JEL code classifications actually tell us? And are they used with consistency by academics in the field? Utilizing a data set of articles published in the American Economic Review from 1990 to 2008, we investigate whether there is heterogeneity in JEL codes assignments between authors and editors. We find that there is. A secondary goal of this paper is to survey overall thematic trends in JEL code usage over the past four and a half decades. One result is that JEL category M: Business Economics, in particular, appears to be thematically and spatially distinct from much of the rest of the published literature in the top general interest journals in the field.

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What Has Mattered to Economics Since 1970

Cited by 10 publications

References 18 publications

How Should Research Performance Be Measured? A Study of Swedish Economists*

How Should Research Performance Be Measured? A Study of Swedish Economists*

Trend of Subjects Published in Economics Journals 1969-2007

A Survey of Jel Codes: What Do They Mean and Are They Used Consistently?

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