Stochastic Trend

Back in December I blogged about Microsoft Academic Search . My conclusion was that though it offered some innovative ways of presenting dat...

Elsevier have responded to the boycott by producing a new e-mail newsletter for authors. The first issue includes a link to a page about t...

One of the principal complaints against Elsevier is that they charge too much. The other side of the story is that universities are http://...

Mark Sagoff has written an article with this title in the Breakthrough Journal . This is a new publication of the Breakthrough Institute wh...

Finally, my paper on interfuel substitution has been published in a formal issue of the journal: Stern D. I. (2012) Interfuel substitution: ...

How hard is it to get published in the top journals in environmental economics? From a variety of sources: JEEM is a lot tougher to get into...

What are the most classic journal articles on global drivers and trends of greenhouse gas emissions and anthropogenic climate change? Below ...

The hot topic at the moment in the scholarly publishing world is the growing movement to boycott Elsevier journals . This is a new angle on ...

Two Monash economists have written a working paper on bias in the selection of the economics journal ranks used in the ERA research assessm...

Here are come highlights of the Crawford School's working papers series in January 2012. Across all six series we got 2198 abstract view...

Roger Pielke spoke today at the Crawford School about his book The Climate Fix . He mainly focused on how the only real solution to the cli...

Joseph Stiglitz argues that the Great Depression (1930s in the US) and the Great Recession (now in the US) have a common cause in maladjus...

This map is based on 5 years of data from Scopus and maps each joint authorship as a geographical connection. You can see a high resolution...

The chart shows all sources of direct research grants earned by Australian universities in 2010. This includes government, international, an...

Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) is the Australian research assessment exercise that is very similar to the British REF. We are cu...

Is this the most rejected paper in the history of economics? Powdthavee, N. I Can't Smile Without You: Spousal Correlation in Life Sati...

The submission deadline for the IAEE conference in Perth has been extended till after the IAEE meeting in Kyoto . So if you missed the dead...

A former student asked me for suggestions for less academic books that address current energy issues. Here is what I suggested. First, Vacla...

Back in 2010 I blogged on John Cochrane's writing tips . Here are the slides from Daniel Hamermesh's presentation on how to publish...

I've just linked a Crawford School blog from the Development Policy Centre to my bloglist. Also from the Crawford School, though they d...

Back in 2010 I blogged briefly about ResearchGate . Today, I saw this article in the New York Times heavily featuring the site. I wonder if...

Based on reading of government documents and the writings of Chinese academics, Olivia Boyd's ANU masters thesis documents the role of ...

I previously blogged about how highly downloaded working papers lead to higher downloads of other papers in the same series . So I was inter...

The QJE is currently widely regarded as the top economics journal. It is also well-known for leading the trend towards "desk-rejection...