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Pride and Prejudice and Publishing

In the academic world, it’s publish or perish. But many believe academic journals are biased about what articles they publish. An economist writing for the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute at the ILR School has proposed a new system for detecting cronyism, according to Inside Higher Ed. Andrew Oswald’s paper compares how editors rank an […]

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In the academic world, it’s publish or perish. But many believe academic journals are biased about what articles they publish.

An economist writing for the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute at the ILR School has proposed a new system for detecting cronyism, according to Inside Higher Ed.

Andrew Oswald’s paper compares how editors rank an article—by looking at how high an article is placed in the journal’s table of contents—with how often the article is subsequently cited in the field.

He tested whether a U. of Chicago Press journal favored Chicago authors. It didn’t—and seemed to hold hometown authors to a higher standard.

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