The Editors and Authors of Economics Journals: a Case of Institutional Oligopoly?
分析1995年引用率最高的30本经济学期刊的编辑和作者所属机构，发现美国机构占据主导地位，可能不利于经济学研究的创新。
This paper examines data on the institutional backgrounds of editors and authors of the top 30 economics journals, identified by their 1995 citation impact. It is revealed, for example, that 70.8% of the journal editors were located in the United States, and twelve U.S. universities accounted for the location of more than 38.9%. Concerning journal article authors, 65.7% were located in U.S. institutions and twelve U.S. universities accounted for 21.8%. Arguably, the degree of institutional and geographical concentration of editors and authors may be unhealthy for innovative research in economics.