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Old 05-16-2008, 09:32 AM   #30 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by israelecon View Post
the question of whether it is a respected journal is subjective, but a top department will probably not consider such a publication to have much (if any) value. however, the quality difference between an article in SEJ and a top journal is quite significant (just read and compare). i know some economists who wouldn't even bother sending an article there. i.e. if thats the best place it can get published, its not worth publishing.
I think there are a lot of very good papers in second or even third tier journals. Conversely, there can be very very bad paper in top journals (I remember a paper by Zilotti and al. that was just terribly bad with hypothesis totally unacceptable and it was just published in the AER). I really believe everyone should not judge the quality of a paper upon where it is published. You will miss a lot of good stuffs.
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