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Explorations in Economic History
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Explorations in Economic History

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Economics and Finance 376 14 15 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 22
Documents by Best Scientists*: 24
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 58
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.528
Impact Factor: 1.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at Explorations in Economic History?

The journal explores disciplines such as Economy, Labour economics, Demographic economics, Development economics and Economic growth. The study on Labour economics presented is investigated in conjunction with research in Productivity.

  • Economy (12.40%)
  • Labour economics (12.09%)
  • Demographic economics (8.93%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The Great Divergence in European Wages and Prices from the Middle Ages to the First World War (725 citations)
  • Factors affecting the diffusion of technology (389 citations)
  • The Evolution of Global Labor Markets since 1830: Background Evidence and Hypotheses (360 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Explorations in Economic History:

The published articles mostly deal with topics like Economy, Labour economics, Development economics, Macroeconomics and Economic growth. The Economy research presented in the published articles focuses mostly on Industrial Revolution and, on occasion, topics in Industrialisation. The works on Labour economics tackled in the most cited papers bring together disciplines like Productivity, Per capita, Demographic economics and Distribution (economics).

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • World War II
  • Law
  • China

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The concepts of Demographic economics, Monetary economics, Great Depression, Development economics and Human capital are tackled in the journal. While it focused on Demographic economics, it was also able to explore topics like Added worker effect and Workforce. Research on Monetary economics addressed in Explorations in Economic History frequently intersections with the field of Endogeneity.

In addition to Great Depression research, it aims to explore topics under New Deal, Aggregate demand, Legalization, Spring (hydrology) and Structural vector autoregression. The research on Development economics featured in it combines topics in other fields like Urbanization, Consumption (economics), Scale (social sciences) and Subsistence agriculture. Some problems in Human capital that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Assimilation (biology), Mass migration and Fell.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Disease, downturns, and wellbeing: Economic history and the long-run impacts of COVID-19. (17 citations)
  • The Cuban revolution and infant mortality: A synthetic control approach (4 citations)
  • The Macroeconomic Effects of Banking Crises: Evidence from the United Kingdom, 1750-1938 (4 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Explorations in Economic History (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Jeffrey G. Williamson (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Price V. Fishback (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Nicholas Crafts (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Stephen Broadberry (10 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Jeremy Atack (9 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Explorations in Economic History (based on the number of publications) are:

  • National Bureau of Economic Research (35 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Harvard University (33 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Oxford (25 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • London School of Economics and Political Science (20 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of California, Davis (20 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 9.68% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 14.29% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 3.57% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.29% of all publications and 67.86% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Career Development Opportunities

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Furthermore, some of these programs have collaborations with prominent economic research journals, where students can contribute their findings and have their work published. This experience could be invaluable for those aiming to make notable contributions in the field of economic history.

Top Publications

  • Transition to agriculture and first state presence: A global analysis

    Oana Borcan;Ola Olsson;Louis Putterman

    (2021)
    24 Citations
  • Sweet Diversity: Colonial Goods and the Welfare Gains from Global Trade after 1492

    (2022)
    24 Citations
  • Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries

    Stephen Broadberry;Leigh Gardner

    (2021)
    23 Citations
  • Change and Persistence in the Age of Modernization: Saint-Germain-d'Anxure 1730-1895

    Guillaume Blanc;Romain Wacziarg

    (2020)
    16 Citations
  • Women at work in the United States since 1860: An analysis of unreported family workers

    Barry R. Chiswick;RaeAnn Halenda Robinson

    (2021)
    11 Citations

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