History of Cliometrics

The long-term evolution of economic history: evidence from the top five field journals (1927–2017)

“…The EREH was established as the journal of the European Historical Economics Society (Sharp 2013) and CLIO as the journal of the Association Francaise de Cliométrie. In contrast, the EHR and the JEH had a long tradition, with a very strong home bias, and changed progressively since the 1960s, as the result of a take-over by a new generation of cliometricians (Lyons, Cain and Williamson 2007, Haupert 2016, Diebolt and Haupert 2016. In recent times, all journals have undoubtedly been converging, although not completely, towards a common model.…”

“…These recent changes can be better appreciated if framed in the long-term history of the discipline. Most previous works have focused on methodological debates and on contributions of prominent scholars (Andreano 1970, Fogel and Elton 1984, Lyons, Cain and Williamson 2007, Boldizzoni 2011, Haupert 2016, Boldizzoni and Hudson 2016. In contrast, following the true cliometric tradition, this paper adopts a quantitative approach, analysing articles published in the five most important journals in economic history (henceforth T5-EH): the Economic History Review 3 (EHR), the Journal of Economic History (JEH), Explorations in Economic History (EEH), the European Review of Economic History (EREH) and Cliometrica (CLIO).…”