Price premiums for journal quality and journal governance: Evidence from economics journals

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2011
Volume: 112
Issue: 1
Pages: 125-127

Score contribution per author:

0.503 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

We quantify the impacts of journal governance (for-profit status, society affiliation, and publisher), quality (impact factor and citations), and costs on the institutional subscription prices of the core economics journals. Empirical results show that quality has a much smaller influence.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:112:y:2011:i:1:p:125-127
Journal Field
General
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-25