Journal Publication Performance during 1970-1974: The Relative Output of Southern Economics Departments

Abstract

There have been a number of papers in the recent literature concerned with the quality of economics journals and the publication performance of economics departments [1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 7; 8]. Quality ratings of the major economics journals have been prepared on the basis of questionnaire surveys [2], institutional affiliation of contributors [4], crossreferences in major journals [1], and citations on reading lists [8]. Publication performance of economics departments has been measured by tabulating the institutional affiliation of contributors to a selected group of economics journals [5; 7] and the Ph.D. source of contributors to the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics [3]. These recent surveys have been concerned with publication performance of American academic institutions during the decade of the 1960s, and a review of the results shows that southern