On the Influence of Top Journals

Concentration of power at the editorial boards of economics journals

“…The second measure is the time‐varying AIS developed in Ductor et al. (2020). It is based on the eigenfactors of the citation matrix of journal $$j$$ in year $$t$$ and the number of articles published by journal $$j$$.…”

“…In either impact model, we include journal characteristics that could be correlated with the journal impact factor: (i) the fields of research of the journal, given by the shares of articles published in each of the 19 JEL codes 32 ; (ii) the number $$N$$ of articles published, which captures the capacity of the journal and could be negative related to journal quality (Ductor et al., 2020); (iii) average article length, $${{\it ArtLength}}$$, as it is positively related to citations (Bramoullé & Ductor, 2018; Card & DellaVigna, 2013); and (iv) the average number of authors, $${{\it Authors}}$$, of an article. In the panel regression, we use yearly values of these variables, marked with a subscript $$t$$, while in the cross‐sectional analysis, we use the average yearly values, marked with an overline.…”

“… Notes : KY is the impact factor developed by Kodrzycki and Yu (2006), AIS is the article influence score computed by Ductor et al. (2020). Average duration is the average duration of editors per role in each journal from 1990 to 2011.…”

“…(2008) for further discussion on the advantages of AIS and Ductor et al. (2020) for further details on the computation of the AIS .…”

El racismo encubierto en economía

“…Raj Chetty, Emmanuel Saez, Thomas Piketty, Joseph Stiglitz, Gabriel Zucman contribuyen de manera significa a nuestra comprensión de los mecanismos magnificadores de la economía que crean la desigualdad. A pesar de esta literatura, existe una cortina de hierro que protege a los centros de poder de la ideología neoliberal, que mantiene su dominio en los libros de texto más populares, en las principales revistas que son importantes para la promoción, así como en la admisión a los departamentos que dan forma al futuro de la disciplina (DeLong, 2011;Ductor et al, 2020;Heckman y Moktan, 2020;Hoover y Svorencik, 2020;Mirowski, 2013). Además, pese al abundante conjunto de investigaciones sobre el racismo en economía, el estudio del racismo en la disciplina está en sus comienzos 33 (Bertrand et al, 2005;Koechlin, 2019;Kvangraven y Kesar, 2020).…”