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SUBMISSION DEMAND IN CORE ECONOMICS JOURNALS: A PANEL STUDY
Author(s) -
Zheng Yuqing,
Kaiser Harry M.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
economic inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1465-7295
pISSN - 0095-2583
DOI - 10.1111/ecin.12277
Subject(s) - core (optical fiber) , economics , price elasticity of demand , impact factor , quality (philosophy) , rank (graph theory) , computer science , microeconomics , political science , telecommunications , law , philosophy , mathematics , epistemology , combinatorics
We estimated the demand for submissions for the market for core economics journals using unique panel data on submissions for 2008 and 2013. We found that in determining which journals to submit a manuscript to, authors care about submission fee, journal quality as measured by rank and impact factor, and journal usages by authors (citations) and subscribers (library subscriptions). The finding on network effect running from libraries to authors may help justify the practice of open‐access journals, where subscription is free, but authors pay a hefty fee after manuscript acceptance. Our findings indicate that a $100 increase in submission fee can reduce the number of yearly submissions by up to 36 (or an elasticity of −0.11). General‐interest journals tend to receive a larger number of manuscript submissions while surprisingly the top five economics journals do not. ( JEL L82, C21, A10)