Social Ties in Academia: A Friend Is a Treasure

By Tommaso Colussi. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017

127 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Abstract 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.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education

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Citations in the corpus

• Academic misconduct, misrepresentation and gaming: A reassessment (2019, background): “Some studies have shown that peer review can be swayed by positive bias due to mentorship networks (Colussi 2018), or that referees may be unfairly harsh when reviewing their competitors (De Silva and Vance, 2017).”