Dani Rodrik's weblog - Unconventional thoughts on economic development and globalization est le blog de D. Rodrik, professeur d'économie politique internationale (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University).

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"Why publish in a journal if you can disseminate online?

A new paper by Glenn Ellison documents something that I have suspected for some time. Economists in top departments are publishing less in top field journals. In addition, economists at Harvard's department of economics--which Ellison and many other consider to be the top department in the country at the moment--are publishing fewer papers in the top general interest journals. (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, which is sort of a house journal at Harvard, seems to be the exception.) The explanation?

Several pieces of evidence bolster the view that one factor contributing to these trends is that the role of journals in disseminating research has been reduced. One is that the citation benefit to publishing in a top general-interest journal now appears to be fairly small for top-department authors. Another is that Harvard authors appear to be quite successful in garnering citations to papers that are not published in top journals. The fact that the publication declines appear to be a top-department phenomenon (as opposed to a prolific-author phenomenon) suggests that a top-department affiliation may be an important determinant of an author’s ability to sidestep the traditional journal system."