A Century of American Economic Review

Does the John Bates Clark Medal Boost Subsequent Productivity and Citation Success?

“…Nevertheless, using citations as a proxy for quality is not without problems (for recent discussions, see Coupé, Ginsburgh, andNoury, 2010, andPiatti, 2011). For example, fields with a larger research population attract more citations (Arrow et al, 2011;Cole and Cole, 1971), and citations can be driven by fashion (van Dalen and Klamer, 2005).…”

A Tale of Two Australian Economics Journals

“…Torgler and Piatti () identified that journal rankings are important in publishing ones research, but so too is how many citations a paper generates.…”

“…Using the recent work of Torgler and Piatti (, ) on ‘A Century of the American Economic Review’ as a model, this paper takes a close look at Australian Economic Papers ( AEP ) since its inception in 1962. This paper is a companion piece to an earlier paper by Millmow and Tuck () which conducted an audit of the Economic Record since 1960.…”

Promoting Econometrics Through Econometrica 1933-39

“…It was thus a journal with an international constituency in the emerging international community of econometricians which in 1933 comprised 362 members from more than 30 countries. When Alfred Cowles 3rd traded his way into the University of Chicago in 1939 to establish a new site for the Cowles Commission he could boast of having is main asset (apart from his wealth) was the At the centenary of American Economic Review in 2011 a long and impressive paper was published by Torgler and Piatti (2011) reviewing a century of AER. While Torgler and Piatti (2011) can be described as an external retrospective review of the journal it describes, based on compilation of an impressive range of information and observation about AER as seen from the outside.…”

“…When Alfred Cowles 3rd traded his way into the University of Chicago in 1939 to establish a new site for the Cowles Commission he could boast of having is main asset (apart from his wealth) was the At the centenary of American Economic Review in 2011 a long and impressive paper was published by Torgler and Piatti (2011) reviewing a century of AER. While Torgler and Piatti (2011) can be described as an external retrospective review of the journal it describes, based on compilation of an impressive range of information and observation about AER as seen from the outside. This is in distinction to the account about Econometrica given in this paper, which is an inside story in the sense that it overwhelmingly draws on unpublished material, mainly Ragnar Frisch's editorial papers and correspondence with no attempt at evaluating the journal from other points of view.…”