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Canuckonomist · 05-14-2008, 10:53 PM

What are people's thoughts on (the Journal of) Resource and Energy Economics?

It's apparently the official Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

I've seen it ranked #36 in Tier 1 from the study done Nanyang Tech, Journal Rankings 2006

Anyhow. The reason why I ask, is because I have been offered co-authorship on a paper about differential games in Resource economics that is going to be published in REE. I'm taking it, most likely. Any TMer input is always well-respected and appreciated.

Thesus · 05-15-2008, 12:32 AM

A 2008 ranking in Applied Economics places the journal 94th out of all economics and business journals, from my quick overview. Paper still not published. REE is ranked a C grade on an A-B-C-D scale, 6/7 among journals in this area.

Environmental Economics: Another journal rankings paper -- how do the Env. Econ. journals do?

Now, I don't even know what a differential game is, so perhaps my advice is not that valuable.

italos · 05-15-2008, 01:03 AM

What about Economic Notes?
Economic Notes: Review of Banking, Finance and Monetary Economics - Journal Information

Canuckonomist · 05-15-2008, 03:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Thesus

A 2008 ranking in Applied Economics places the journal 94th out of all economics and business journals, from my quick overview. Paper still not published. REE is ranked a C grade on an A-B-C-D scale, 6/7 among journals in this area.

Environmental Economics: Another journal rankings paper -- how do the Env. Econ. journals do?

Checking the paper you mentioned, I found that the caveat with the methodology used is that REE only publishes 4 times a year, which means fewer papers, fewer citations, and a lower impact factor. Other studies, linked to by this paper, show REE 4/11, 3 above LAND, which is not included in the rankings in the paper you've provided, but by quite a few is considered a good journal.

I've seen so many journal rankings in the past little while, that I am not too sure which ones are "good" and which ones are not. I've figured out the "top" journals, and this isn't one of them. My professor tells me that it's the top resource journal in Europe, but not in the U.S.

I suppose at this point, that I've seen it on some rankings, and seen a few comments that it's respectable enough, I'll definitely take it. Hopefully it will have a positive effect on my application next year. If not, I'm proud of it anyway. Thanks for your research into my question, Thesus.

asianeconomist · 05-15-2008, 03:31 AM

Instead of blatantly referring to the rankings, you should also check out the people who have recently published in the journal. If some of the researchers have affiliation with top institutions, then the chances are higher that someone from those departments will recognize this is as a strong positive in your application. Also, this acts as a signal about the quality of the journal (as these people found it worthwhile to publish in this journal).

jenizaro · 05-15-2008, 04:27 AM

Hey, that NTU ranking of journals seems pretty good!

Does most people agree with their califications?

What other important rankings there are?

asianecon · 05-15-2008, 05:16 AM

Don't stress too much about the ranking of the journal. I doubt that this will matter much vis a vis admissions, especially within the top 10.

If you want to co-author because you're sincerely interested and research excites you, then go ahead. If you're approaching this strategically wrt admissions, then do something else, eg an RA job for someone who's writing a paper for a top general-interest journals (eg AER, ECMA, QJE, JPE, etc etc).

As an aside, differential games is interesting to learn though it's not that popular in economics. Most applications seem to be in resource economics though I've seen a couple of papers from Europe leaning towards IO/strategic investment side. I think a couple of reasons why it's not used that much is that (1) you might waste too much time solving complicated pdEs which in the end you cannot bring to data and (2) you can sometimes transform a dynamic game to something that looks like a single-agent dynamic decision problem and then use similar estimation methods built for the latter

Canuckonomist · 05-15-2008, 12:50 PM

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm quite happy with the paper, and it was very interesting to work on, so I can say I'm doing this more out of interest than anything else. I figure if it adds to my application for some reason, woohoo, and lucky me.

I'm still currently RAing for the same prof, and we're taking on some big-wigs in Labour/Urban. While my interest is financial economics at present, it's nice to get my feet wet in all sorts of fields before I know exactly what my second "minor field" will be. I'm also RAing for an Economic Historian/Labour Economist, and so it's interesting to pick up that side of things, too.

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Canuckonomist Loving the Ivory Tower Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Kingston, Canada Posts: 246	Thoughts on a Journal (decent enough?) What are people's thoughts on (the Journal of) Resource and Energy Economics? It's apparently the official Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. I've seen it ranked #36 in Tier 1 from the study done Nanyang Tech, Journal Rankings 2006 Anyhow. The reason why I ask, is because I have been offered co-authorship on a paper about differential games in Resource economics that is going to be published in REE. I'm taking it, most likely. Any TMer input is always well-respected and appreciated. _ _ _ _ SIG _ _ _ _ Attending Queen's University Ph.D comics by Jorge Cham... Now I can actually say they relate.

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asianecon Within my grasp! Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 487	Don't stress too much about the ranking of the journal. I doubt that this will matter much vis a vis admissions, especially within the top 10. If you want to co-author because you're sincerely interested and research excites you, then go ahead. If you're approaching this strategically wrt admissions, then do something else, eg an RA job for someone who's writing a paper for a top general-interest journals (eg AER, ECMA, QJE, JPE, etc etc). As an aside, differential games is interesting to learn though it's not that popular in economics. Most applications seem to be in resource economics though I've seen a couple of papers from Europe leaning towards IO/strategic investment side. I think a couple of reasons why it's not used that much is that (1) you might waste too much time solving complicated pdEs which in the end you cannot bring to data and (2) you can sometimes transform a dynamic game to something that looks like a single-agent dynamic decision problem and then use similar estimation methods built for the latter _ _ _ _ SIG _ _ _ _ "But the real prize of academic work is the privilege, freedom and fun of working on subjects of one's own choice. The joy of research for me is the work itself, irrespective of peer evaluation. The pleasure that comes from unlocking a technical argument, the excitement of seeing a new way of looking at an issue, the satisfaction of drawing different matrices of knowledge together in a productive way." -P.C.B. Phillips

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Canuckonomist Loving the Ivory Tower Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Kingston, Canada Posts: 246	Thanks for the suggestion. I'm quite happy with the paper, and it was very interesting to work on, so I can say I'm doing this more out of interest than anything else. I figure if it adds to my application for some reason, woohoo, and lucky me. I'm still currently RAing for the same prof, and we're taking on some big-wigs in Labour/Urban. While my interest is financial economics at present, it's nice to get my feet wet in all sorts of fields before I know exactly what my second "minor field" will be. I'm also RAing for an Economic Historian/Labour Economist, and so it's interesting to pick up that side of things, too. _ _ _ _ SIG _ _ _ _ Attending Queen's University Ph.D comics by Jorge Cham... Now I can actually say they relate.

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05-15-2008, 12:32 AM	#2 (permalink)
Thesus Attending Rochester. Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: St. John's, Newfoundland Posts: 256	A 2008 ranking in Applied Economics places the journal 94th out of all economics and business journals, from my quick overview. Paper still not published. REE is ranked a C grade on an A-B-C-D scale, 6/7 among journals in this area. Environmental Economics: Another journal rankings paper -- how do the Env. Econ. journals do? Now, I don't even know what a differential game is, so perhaps my advice is not that valuable.

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asianeconomist Loving the game Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Where the grass is greener Posts: 869	Instead of blatantly referring to the rankings, you should also check out the people who have recently published in the journal. If some of the researchers have affiliation with top institutions, then the chances are higher that someone from those departments will recognize this is as a strong positive in your application. Also, this acts as a signal about the quality of the journal (as these people found it worthwhile to publish in this journal).

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