TY  - SER
AU  - Hadavand, Aboozar
AU  -  Hamermesh, Daniel S.
AU  -  Wilson, Wesley W.
TI  - Publishing Economics: How Slow? Why Slow? Is Slow Productive? How to Fix Slow?
SN  - 0022-0515
PB  - Journal of Economic Literature
KW  -  Role of Economics
KW  -  Role of Economists
KW  - Market for Economists, History of Economic Thought since 1925: Other
N2  - Economics publishing proceeds much more slowly than in the natural sciences, and more slowly than in the other social sciences and finance. It is relatively even slower at the extremes. Much of the lag, especially at the extremes, arises from authors' dilatory behavior in revisions. Additional rounds of resubmissions at top economics journals are related to additional citations; but conditional on resubmission, the delays are unrelated to greater scholarly attention. We offer several proposals for speeding publication, including no-revision policies such as Economic Inquiry's, the use of "cascading referee reports," limits on authors' time revising, and limits on editors waiting for dilatory referees
UR  - https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20221653
ER  -