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Leadership in Scholarship: Editors' Appointments and Scientific Narrative

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: ABSTRACT Academic journals disseminate new knowledge and therefore can influence the direction and composition of ongoing research by choosing what to publish. We study the change in the topic structure of papers published in the American Economic Review (AER) after the appointments of editors and coeditors of the AER between 1985 and 2011 using a textual analysis of accepted publications. The change due to the appointment of new AER editors, we find, is not an indicator of editors' personal taste in topics, but rather indicates the desire of those who appoint editors to premediate trends in other Top 5 journals.

Source: Scottish Journal of Political Economy

DOI: 10.1111/sjpe.12413

Authors: Ali Sina Önder, Sergey V. Popov, Sascha Schweitzer

Institutions: University of Portsmouth, Cardiff University, University of Bayreuth, Reutlingen University

Language: English

Topic: Publishing and Scholarly Communication

Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,760

OpenAlex ID: W4405914610

FWCI: 1.459

Cites: 46

Cited by: 1

Related to: 10