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Review of Regional Studies
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Review of Regional Studies

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Published by: University of Delaware

https://rrs.scholasticahq.com/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Economics and Finance 562 7 9 3

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 10
Documents by Best Scientists*: 12
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 24
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.215
Impact Factor: 0.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at The Review of Regional Studies?

The topics of Econometrics, Labour economics, Demographic economics, Economic growth and State (polity) are the focal point of discussions in The Review of Regional Studies. The Labour economics works, particularly on Wage are tackled in the journal. Discussions in the journal are anchored in the subject of Demographic economics and the similar topic of Metropolitan area.

  • Econometrics (13.65%)
  • Labour economics (10.89%)
  • Demographic economics (9.78%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • PySAL: A Python Library of Spatial Analytical Methods (213 citations)
  • What Regional Scientists Need to Know about Spatial Econometrics (153 citations)
  • Wealth And Income Effects Of Natural Disasters: An Econometric Analysis Of Hurricane Hugo (116 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at The Review of Regional Studies:

The most cited papers investigate areas of study like Econometrics, Economy, Labour economics, Economic growth and Metropolitan area. The works on Labour economics tackled in the most cited articles bring together disciplines like Net migration rate, Sample (statistics), Unemployment and Human capital. The journal articles address concerns in Economic growth which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Economic geography, Economic problem and Agricultural economics.

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

  • World War II
  • Law
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The scientific interests tackled in the journal are Econometrics, Incentive, Metropolitan area, Demographic economics and Attendance. The Review of Regional Studies holds forums on Econometrics that merges themes from other disciplines such as Union density, Convergence clubs, Spatial heterogeneity, Multilevel model and Convergence (relationship). In it, Subsidy, Private sector, Amazon rainforest, Public policy and Waterborne diseases are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Incentive research.

The research on Metropolitan area featured in The Review of Regional Studies combines topics in other fields like Population ageing, Prosperity, Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Purchasing power parity and Recession. Some problems in Demographic economics that were presented in the journal overlapped with concepts under Competition (economics), Percentage point, Backwardness and Literacy. Most of the works presented in it deals with Attendance but it intersects with the subject of Demography.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Old and New Approaches for Spatially Varying Coefficient Models (0 citations)
  • Information Interventions and Postsecondary Enrollment: Evidence from Appalachian Ohio (0 citations)
  • How Does the Age Structure Affect Local Economies in the US (0 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 The Review of Regional Studies (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Richard J. Cebula (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Dan S. Rickman (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Thomas R. Harris (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Stephan Weiler (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Mark D. Partridge (10 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 The Review of Regional Studies (based on the number of publications) are:

  • West Virginia University (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Washington & Jefferson College (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Colorado State University (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (6 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, 100.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, nan% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another nan% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included nan% of all publications and nan% 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.

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Top Publications

  • Are We in the 4th Wave of Economic Development?

    (2021)
    11 Citations
  • Regional Level Social Capital and Business Survival Rates

    Tessa Conroy;Steven C. Deller

    (2020)
    11 Citations
  • Explaining Spatial Disparities in Fatal Drug Overdoses, 1970-2016

    (2021)
    4 Citations
  • Efficient Regional Taxes in the Presence of Mobile Creative Capital

    (2022)
    2 Citations
  • Churning in Rural and Urban Retail Markets

    Georgeanne M. Artz;Liesl Eathington;Jasmine Francois;Melvin Masinde

    (2020)
    2 Citations

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