ASSESSING THE RELATIVE IMPACTS OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP: AN APPLICATION OF THE HARZING DATABASE

Despite the rising prominence of economic education scholarship, little work has been done to document how economic education scholarship is faring in the academic world. Unlike prior research in this genre, this study assesses the relative impacts of economic education scholarship by examining published research in (strictly) economic education journals. In order to do so, we use the Harzing database of citations to articles published in (strictly) economic education journals from 1990 to the present. Supporting some of the measures found in prior research, we find that the Journal of Economic Education (JEE) is unambiguously the dominant source of influential scholarship in the field of economic education. Interestingly, the JEE's closest competitors among active economic education journals are the International Review of Economics Education and Computers in Higher Education Economics Research, both of which are published under the auspices of the Economics Network, which is located in the UK. Following these two journals in our ranking is the Journal of Economics and Finance Education, a relatively new journal launch.     

On the Market for Principles of Economics Textbooks: Innovation and Product Differentiation

Tabular data are provided on the journals that have published economic education articles, the topics covered, and the individual authors. Institutions are ranked by their contributions to the economic education literature.     

Publishing performance in economics: Spanish rankings (1990–1999)

Abstract. This paper contributes to the growing literature that analyses the Spanish publishing performance in Economics throughout the 1990s. Several bibliometric indicators are used in order to provide Spanish rankings (of both institutions and individual authors) based on Econlit journals. Further, lists of the ten most influential authors and articles over that period, in terms of citations, are reported. We are grateful to many colleagues who made very useful remarks to preliminary versions of this paper, as well as to two anonymous referees. We are particularly indebted to Xavier Sala-i-Martín, without whose invaluable help this work would not have been possible. All errors or omissions are of our exclusive responsibility.     

F. H. G. Gruen: 1921-97

Economics Society of Australia Distinguished Fellow 1997 Fred Gruen was awarded the 1997 Economics Society of Australia Distiguished Fellow for his contribution to the Australian economics profession. Throughout his life Professor Gruen's writtings on economic policy were distinguished by their breadth, relevance and insight. His advice had direct influence on government policy, such as the 25 per cent tariff cut in 1973, and the reintroduction of the assets test on pensions in 1985. His contribution to the development of the economics profession included his role as President both of the Australian Agrucutural Economics Society and the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.
This citation has been shortened to accompany the following obituary.     

Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success

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This essay is a comment on“The Citation Impact of Feminist Economics”by Frances Woolley, which appeared in Feminist Economics, Vol. 11, No. 3, November 2005.

This contribution comments on Frances Woolley's recent Feminist Economics article, “The Citation Impact of Feminist Economics.” It points to two avenues through which Woolley's article could have better illuminated the extent of Feminist Economics' scholarly relationship with the communities of both heterodox and mainstream economists: first, she omits several important heterodox economic journals in her study, and second, she could have offered a more critical evaluation of mainstream journals and economists relative to Feminist Economics and feminist economists. This paper uses citation data drawn from ten heterodox and ten mainstream journals to identify and build on these gaps.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Surveys Of Australian Economics, Volume 3 , edited by F. H. Gruen
Reality and Rhetoric, Studies in the Economics of Development , by P. T. Bauer
The Economics of Supply and Demand , by L. R. Klein     

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The Australian Economy in the Long Run , edited by Rodney Maddock and Ian W. McLean
Privatisation, the British Experience: an Australian Perspective , by Kenneth W. Wiltshire
Privatisation and Regulation: the UK Experience , edited by John Kay, Colin Mayer and David Thompson
Mathematical Economics: Twenty Years of Gerard Debreu , by G. Debreu
Data-FTT An Interactive Econometric Software Package , by M Hashem Pesaran and Bahrain Pesaran
The Treasury Line , by G. Whitwell
Lifestyle Economics: Consumer Behaviour in a Turbulent World , by P. Earl
Inside the Firm: The Inefficiencies of Hierarchy , by H. Leibenstein
ASEAN-Australia Trade in Manufactures , edited by David Lim
Student Economics Briefs 198718: twelve essays on key issues of economics, Australian economic policy, finance and commerce , by D. Clark
Theories of Income Distribution , by A. Asimakopulos, Recent Economic Thought Series
International Economic Policy Coordination , edited by W.H. Buiter and R.C. Marston     

Economics research in Canada: a long-run assessment of journal publications

Abstract.  We examine the publications of authors affiliated with an economics research institution in Canada in (1) the Top-10 journals in economics according to journals' impact factors, and (2) the Canadian Journal of Economics . We consider all publications in the even years from 1980 to 2000. Canadian economists contributed about 5% of publications in the Top-10 journals and about 55% of publications in the Canadian Journal of Economics over this period. We identify the most active research centres and identify trends in their relative outputs over time. Those research centres successful in publishing in the Top-10 journals are found to also dominate the Canadian Journal of Economics . Additionally, we check the robustness of our findings with respect to journal selection, and we present data on authors' PhD origin, thereby indicating output and its concentration in graduate education.     

Authorship,Collaboration, Topics,and Research Gaps in Environmental and Resource Economics 1991–2015

Environmental and Resource Economics is one of the premier journals in the field of environmental economics. It was established with an aspiration to focus more on applied and policy relevant research compared to other established journals, and to establish better channels of communication and collaboration between researchers from Europe and other parts of the world. We present a text based exploratory analysis of 1630 articles published in the Journal from 1991 to 2015 that suggests the Journal has been somewhat successful in meeting both these aims. Perhaps more importantly, it shows the Journal continues to progress toward these goals. The European authors are the largest contributors to the Journal, which is in contrast to other prominent journals (such as Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and Ecological Economics). And while most of the collaboration has occurred within this geographic region (e.g., European authors collaborated with other European authors more frequently), this trend appears to be changing as the proportion of articles written by international collaborators is gradually increasing. Topic analysis reveals that almost all of the articles could be grouped under applied and/or policy relevant topics, and almost two-thirds of the articles are empirical in nature, which suggest that the journal has been able to fulfil both of its commitments. We also investigate trends in research foci over the last 25 years and what kind of research gaps can be discerned.     

A Brief Overview of the Economics of Incomplete Markets

This paper was motivated by my participation in the Economic Theory Symposium of the 1988 Australian Economics Congress, Canberra. It represents only one perspective on an immense literature. As the reader will notice, I have often referred to my own work. for two reasons. The first is because it is what I know best, the second is to provide an illustration of the in efficiency resulting from the incentive constraints editors face in contracting for surveys .     

Trends in co-authorship in economics since 1985

It has been often noted (McDowell and Melvin, 1983; Barnett et al., 1988; Piette and Ross, 1992; Sutter and Kocher, 2004) that the share of co-authored papers in economics has been increasing steadily. The purpose of this study is to investigate some of the theories as to why co-authorship has been increasing in the economics profession. Using data on the publication records of faculty at 129 US colleges and universities that offer doctoral degrees in Economics, Poisson and logit regression models are estimated to explain co-authorship. Results indicate that the likelihood of co-authorship is greater for papers that combine quantitative analysis with another field and for papers published in higher quality journals. Further, co-authorship appears to differ in the many subfields of economics, with the field of Economic History and History of Thought (Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) categories N and B) to be the least likely to co-author and the fields of Financial Economics (JEL category G) and Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics (JEL category Q) to be the most prone to co-authorship.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
The Intellectual Capital of Michal Kalecki: A Study in Economic Theory and Policy. By G. R. Fiewel
Production Functions and Aggregation. By K. Sato. (North Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1975)
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Geneva, Switzerland.
The Economics of Electricity Supply in Australia. By G. D. McColl. (Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1975.)
Price and Non-Price Competition: Dynamics of Marketing. By M. M. Metwally. (Asia Publishing House, London, 1976.)
Australia, Japan and the Western Pacific Economic Relations: A Report to the Governments of Australia and Japan. Presented by Sir John Crawford and Dr. Saburo Okita. (Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1976.) Pp. IX + 325. No price stated.
Money, Employment and Inflation. By R. J. Barro and H. I. Grossman. (Cambridge University Press, London, 1976.)
Investigating Economics. By A. Hocking. (Australian Economics Project, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1975.)
Teaching Economics. A Guide to Investigating Economics. By A. Hocking, A. Gregory and R. Wilkes. (Australian Economics Project, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1975.)
A Theory of Profits. By A. Wood. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1975
Investment and Employment Decisions. By Frank Brechling. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1975.)     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Understanding Labour Markets , edited by Richard Blandy and Owen Covick
Monetary Control in the United Kingdom , by M.J. Artis and M.K. Lewis
Essays in the Economics of Exhaustible Recourses , edited by M. C. Kemp and N. V. Long
Corporate Structure & Performance: The Role of Owners, Managers and Markets , by Michael L. Lawriwsky
Japanese and Australian Labour Markets: A Comparative Study , edited by Keith Hancock, Yoko Sano, Bruce Chapman and Pamela Fayle
Commodity Models for Forecasting and Policy Analysis , by Walter C. Labys and Peter K. Pollak
The Economics of Non-Wage Labour Costs , by Robert A. Hart
Arbitrator At Work: Sir William Raymond Kelly and the Regulation of Australian Industrial Relations , by B. Dabschek
Contemporary Capitalism and Marxist Economics , by Jacques Gouverneur     

What are the top five journals in economics? A new meta-ranking

We construct a meta-ranking of 277 economics journals based on 22 different rankings. The ranking incorporates bibliometric indicators from four different databases (Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, and RePEc). We account for the different scaling of the bibliometric indicators by standardizing each ranking score. We run a principal component analysis to assign weights to each ranking. In our meta-ranking, the top five journals are given by: Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), Journal of Finance, and Econometrica. Additionally, leaving out the JEL as a survey journal and the finance journals in our top 10 list we confirm the perceived top five journals in the economics profession.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Financial Economics , by Jiirgen Eichberger and Ian R. Harper
International Parity Conditions: Theory. Econometric Testing and Empirical Evidence , by Imad A. Moosa and Razzaque H. Bhatti
Australian Readings in Monetary and Financial Economics , edited by P. Stemp and J. Milne-Pott
The Economics of Seasonal Cycles , by Jeffrey A. Miron
Can We Afford to Grow Old? A Perspective on the Economics of Aging , by Richard Disney
The Coming of Keynesianism to America. Conversations with the Founders of Keynesian Economics , edited by David C. Colander and Harry Landreth
Reforming Asian Socialism: The Growth of Market Institutions , edited by John McMillan and Barry Naughton
International Competitiveness and the Balance of Payments , by Barbara Dluhosch, Andreas Freytag and Malte Kruger
Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade , by Douglas A. Irwin
Institutions and Monetary Policy: Credibility, Flexibility and Central Bank Independence , by Eric Schaling     

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The Accord and the Australian Labour Movement , by Gwynneth Singleton
Keynes: Philosophy, Economics & Politics. The Philosophical Foundations of Keynes's Thought and their Influence on his Economics and Politics , by R. M. O'Donnell
The Economics of Trade Protection by N. Vousden
Economic Policy Management: A Japanese Approach , by N. Maruo
Chinese State Enterprises: A Regional Property Rights Analysis , by David Granick
Games and Information: An Introduction to Game Theory , by Eric Rasmusen
The Economics of Small Firms: A European Challenge , Studies in Industrial Organisation
The Methodology of Economic Model Building , by Lawrence A. Boland
Value-form and the state: the tendencies of accumulation and the determination of economic policy in capitalist society , by G. Reuten and M. Williams
The Completion of the Internal Market , edited by Horst Siebert     

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Environmental Economics: Policies for Environmental Management and Sustainable Development, by Clem Tisdell The Elements of a Nonlinear Theory of Economic Dynamics, by Carl Chiarella Superannuation and the Australian Financial System, edited by K. Davis and I. Harper The Politics of Australian Immigration, edited by James iupp and Marie Kabala Long Term Control of Exhaustible Resources, Fundamentals of Pure and Applied Economics, Volume 49, by Pierre Lasserre Australian Industry–What Policy?, edited by Michael Costa and Michael Easson Central bank strategy, credibility and independence, by Alex Cukierman Counting the Cost of Global Warming, by John Broome     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Inflation:Theory and Policy. By A. J. Hagger
The Economics of A. R. J. Turgot. Edited and Translated by P. D. Groenewegen
Economics of the Australian Service Sector. Edited by K. A. Tucker
Urban Development in Australia. By G. M. Neutze
Australia and the Non-White Migrants. Edited by K. Rivett
Australia:A Geography. Edited by D. N. Jeans
Quantitative Methods in. Economics. By G. B. Lewis     

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Book reviewed in this article:
The Australian Economy. Simple Economic Studies , by D. B. Copland
The Crisis in Australian Finance , 1929-31, by E. O. G. Shann, and D. B. Copland
The Battle of the Plans , by E. O. G. Shann and D. B. Copland
Britain and World Trade and Other Economic Essays. By A. Loveday
The Civil Service in the Modern State. By Leonard D. White
Our Financial System, An Introductory Text , by Albert S. Keister
Outlines of Economics , by Richard T. Ely
The Australian Banking and Credit System , by A. L. Gordon MacKay
Communism and Christianity , by G. V. Portus
Economics of Modern Industry , by Percy Ford
Economic Disarmament. A Study on International Co-operation. By J. H. Richardson
The Provision of Credit, with Special Reference to Agriculture. By Professor H. Belshaw
An Economic Survey of Australia.
Distribution in the United States and Europe.
An Outline of Australian Economics. By E. Ronald Walker and K. B. Madgwick
The Round Table—A Quarterly Review of the Politics of the British Commonwealth,1 No.
Economic Fragments. By D. H. Robertson, M.A.
Budget Control: An Introduction to the Financial System of New South Wales. By F. A. Bland     

AN EVALUATION OF THE GREEK UNIVERSITIES’ ECONOMICS DEPARTMENTS

This study provides a ranking of Economics Departments of Greek universities. Contrary to the existing literature, we look directly at the citations of the faculty members as a measure of academic performance and avoid the classification of journals. Additionally, the country of the PhD studies was found to be a significant variable that can explain the productivity of Greek economists. PhD holders from US and UK universities are characterized by higher productivity compared to those from other countries.