Secrets of Economics Editors - 9780262525466

Editors of academic journals are often the top scholars in their fields. They arecharged with managing the flow of hundreds of manuscripts each year -- from submission to review torejection or acceptance -- all while continuing their own scholarly pursuits. Tenure decisions oftenturn on who has published what in which journals, but editors can accept only a fraction of thepapers submitted. In this book, past and present editors of economics journals discuss navigatingthe world of academic journals. Their contributions offer essential reading for anyone who has eversubmitted a paper, served as a referee or associate editor, edited a journal -- or read an articleand wondered why it was published.

The editors describe their experiences atjournals that range from the American Economic Review to the Journalof Sports Economics. The issues they examine include late referee reports, slowresubmission of manuscripts, and plagiarism -- as well as the difficulties of "herdingcats" and the benefits of husband-wife editorial partnerships. They consider the role of theeditor, as gatekeeper or developer of content; and they advise authors to write more carefully andclearly, to include citations that locate their articles in the context of the existing literature,and to update their work after it has been submitted and rejected elsewhere. The chapters also offera timely, insider's perspective on the general effectiveness of the system of academic journals ineconomics.

ContributorsRichard V. Adkisson, Richard G.Anderson, William A. Barnett, Suzanne R. Becker, William R. Becker, Daniel W. Bromley, William G.Dewald, Antony W. Dnes, Zvi Eckstein, Richard Friberg, Esther Gal-Or, Craufurd Goodwin, ThorvaldurGylfason, Campbell R. Harvey, Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Leo H. Kahane, R. Preston McAfee, John Pencavel,Gerald Pfann, Steven Pressman, Lall B. Ramrattan, J. Barkley Rosser Jr., Paul H. Rubin, William F.Shughart II, Robert M. Solow, Daniel F. Spulber, Michael Szenberg, Timothy Taylor, Abu N.M. Wahid,Michael Watts, Lawrence J. White, Jürgen von Hagen, Fabrizio Zilibotti