What Makes a Working Paper in Economics Publishable? A Tale from the Scientific Periphery

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2013

Authors

Aurora A C Teixeira (Author) FEP

Journal

Title: Journal of Scholarly Publishing

Vol. 44 No. 2

Pages: 142-164

ISSN: 1198-9742

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Scientific classification

FOS: Social sciences > Educational sciences

CORDIS: Social sciences > Economics

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-002-1SM

DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44.2.003

Abstract (EN): Research on scientific production and publications in the field of economics has positively boomed in the last few years. However, hardly any attention has been dedicated to the production of working papers and the consequences they may have within the institutions where they are produced. This paper provides a detailed analysis of the working papers produced and published from an institution that is relatively peripheral in terms of its production of research in economics. It mainly explores the probability of the working papers being published in peer-reviewed journals. Through the use of an extensive series of these working papers, produced between 1985 and the end of 2005, and through the estimation of a logistic regression model, it was concluded that the probability of international publication increases significantly when the working paper is recent and co-written with a researcher from a foreign institution. Such evidence suggests that for success in the 'publish or perish' world of scientific research, one has to be integrated into an international scientific network.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 23