Leadership in scholarship: Editors' appointments and scientific narrative

Onder, Ali Sina, Popov, Sergey V. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6899-9293 and Schweitzer, Sascha 2024. Leadership in scholarship: Editors' appointments and scientific narrative. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 10.1111/sjpe.12413

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Abstract

Academic journals disseminate new knowledge and therefore can influence the direction and composition of ongoing research by choosing what to publish. We study the change in the topic structure of papers published in the American Economic Review (AER) after the appointments of editors and coeditors of the AER between 1985 and 2011 using a textual analysis of accepted publications. The change due to the appointment of new AER editors, we find, is not an indicator of editors' personal taste in topics, but rather indicates the desire of those who appoint editors to premediate trends in other Top 5 journals.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0036-9292
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	12 December 2024
Date of Acceptance:	12 December 2024
Last Modified:	03 Jan 2025 12:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/174703

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