The Audit We Had to Have: The Economic Record, 1960–2009

Abstract

The Economic Record, one of the world's oldest economic journals, has a distinguished history. The flagship journal of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand was launched in 1925 and is approaching its 100th birthday. We undertake a forensic examination of the journal over the last 50 years, exploring issues like its content, most‐cited articles and most frequent contributors. This article discusses the journal's internationalisation but also identifies how Australia's top economists have, for the most part, faithfully persisted with it. The changing nature of academic publishing is explored through the patterns of collaboration, citations and dry holes.

A Tale of Two Australian Economics Journals

“…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.…”