Social Ties in Academia: A Friend Is a Treasure
利用经济学顶级期刊的文章、作者和编辑数据，发现约43%的论文作者与编辑有学术联系，且编辑的博士生和同事在其任职期间发表成果更好。
This paper employs a unique data set on articles, authors, and editors of the top general interest journals in economics to investigate the role of social connections in the publication process. Ties between editors and authors are identified based on their academic histories. About 43% of the articles published in these journals are authored by scholars connected to one editor at the time of the publication. Ph.D. students and faculty colleagues of an editor also improve their publication outcomes when this editor is in charge of a journal.