Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/220056 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. TI 2020-019/II
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
We study the evolution of the influence of journals over the period 1970-2017. In the early 1970's, a number of journals had similar influence, but by 1995, the `Top 5' journals, QJE, AER, RES, Econometrica, and JPE, had acquired a major lead. This dominance has remained more or less unchanged since 1995. To place these developments in a broader context, we also study trends in sociology. The trends there have gone the other way; the field journals rose in influence, relative to the Top General journals. A model of journals as platforms is developed to understand these trends across time and across disciplines.
Subjects: 
research impact
Top 5 journals
academic publishing
citations
JEL: 
A14
D85
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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