The 10th year of the Journal of Economic Geography: a decade of high impact publication
回顾了《经济地理杂志》创刊十年来面临的挑战与成就，包括新期刊的进入壁垒、学科文化转向的影响，以及其作为地理学家与经济学家对话平台的角色。
In January 2001 the Journal of Economic Geography launched with a clear vision but uncertain prospects. There were two main reasons for the latter. First, new journals, like market entrants more generally, face an uphill struggle to achieve scale and presence. The established pecking order of leading journals in a field is protected by a variety of entry barriers which the spread of ‘research assessment exercises’ into growing numbers of countries has merely served to strengthen as academics have increasingly been steered towards publication in designated lists of ‘top journals’. In consequence, the majority of new journals, however niche-filling, market-attuned and well-designed/produced, are destined never to break into such lists and to spend long periods, if not their entire lifespan, in the ‘foothills’ of global recognition. Second, the Journal was launched at what, in retrospect, may have been the high point of the ‘cultural turn’ in geography, when the concept of cross-disciplinary engagement with social scientists whose intellectual roots, if not their current position, were inevitably neoclassical in orientation found little favour at the core of the discipline (Amin and Thrift, 2000). Moreover, it was a period when economic geography was portrayed as a declining, narrowly specialized, subdiscipline that was failing to fire the imagination of postgraduates. Additionally, in some quarters, despite the Journal stressing its vision of providing an ‘inclusive’ forum for debate between geographers and economists (Arnott and Wrigley, 2001, 2003; Puga and Wrigley, 2004), that was misread to imply primarily a forum for discussion of Krugman-style ‘new economic geography’.