Institutional Inequality in the Publishing of Economics Papers, 1970-74

Both because of the importance of “getting published” and the difficulty of having one's work accepted by a professional journal, nearly every college teacher of economics should find this article to be of interest. Siegfried and Zak have analyzed the contributions to five leading journals in terms of the institutional affiliations of the authors, noting that “dramatic shifts in contributions among universities have occurred between the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s.” Some possible reasons for the change in the distribution of contributors are set forth. Detailed data are presented in six tables.