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Record W2985457196 · doi:10.1111/caje.12460

Social connections and editorship in economics

2020· article· en· W2985457196 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Raffaele Miniaci, Michele Pezzoni

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économique · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
Topicscientometrics and bibliometrics research
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersAgence Nationale de la Recherche
KeywordsCeteris paribusHumanitiesPolitical scienceSociologyEconomicsPhilosophyMicroeconomics

Abstract

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Abstract This paper investigates the determinants of editorial board membership, for 17 leading journals in economics, from 1997 to 2009. We find that the researcher's scientific profile and connections to the editors in charge are significant predictors of editorship. Ceteris paribus, after controlling for unobserved researcher heterogeneity, scholars with links to editors in the co‐authorship network are more likely to serve as editors and this advantage decreases sharply with the social distance. Being a present or former departmental colleague or protégé of an editor‐in‐charge is positively associated with the probability of appointment to the board. Résumé Liens sociaux et comités éditoriaux en économie. Cet article explore les éléments déterminants relatifs à la composition des comités éditoriaux de 17 revues économiques de premier plan entre 1997 et 2009. Nous avons constaté que le profil scientifique du chercheur ainsi que ses relations avec les éditeurs augmentent la probabilité d’être membre d’un comité éditorial. Toutes choses étant égales par ailleurs, et après avoir neutralisé l’hétérogénéité non observée des chercheurs, il apparaît que les chercheurs en lien avec des éditeurs dans un réseau de corédaction sont davantage susceptibles de devenir éditeurs à leur tour, et que cet avantage s’amenuise drastiquement avec la distance sociale. Le fait d’avoir été collègue au sein d’un même département ou mentoré par un éditeur est associé de fac¸on positive à la probabilité d’intégrer le comité éditorial.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.046
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Bibliometrics
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Evaluation · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.996
Threshold uncertainty score0.036

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.046
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0040.004
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.729
GPT teacher head0.379
Teacher spread0.350 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designObservational
DomainEvaluation
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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