An analysis of editorial board members’ publication output in agricultural economics and policy journals

Abstract

This article explores the extent to which editorial board members (EBMs) of agricultural economics journals publish their research in their own journals. Journals were selected from the Journal Citation Report® from the category Agricultural Economics and Policy. Only research articles published between 2012 and 2016 were included in our analysis. We focused on the indicators concerning the share of board members publishing in their own journals, the share of articles authored by board members and on the share of board members’ articles published in their own journals and the citation response of their articles. The share of articles authored by editorial board members (7.7%) conforms to results in other branches. The share of articles that EBMs publish in their own journal, the share of non-publishing EBMs and the share of EBMs’ articles that remained uncited are strongly but inversely correlated with journals’ bibliometric characteristics. Most journals show a non-zero share of the EBMs, which publish solely in their own journal (up to 27%).