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The American Economic Review: Editorial PolicyGeneral Nature of the Editorial ProcessManuscripts submitted to The American Economic Review are handled by an Editor, several Coeditors, and a staff located in Pittsburgh, using an Internet-based manuscript management software system. Papers are submitted online electronically, processed by the Pittsburgh office staff, and then distributed by the Editor to one of the Coeditors or to himself to oversee the refereeing process and to make a publication decision. Papers are assigned on the basis of field of expertise of the Coeditor, combined with a variety of other considerations including equalization of work-load and conflict-of-interest rules. Once assigned, papers are handled by the designated Coeditor throughout the decision process, without review by the Editor. Policy on Disclosure and ConfidentialityThere are several conflict rules that affect assignment of manuscripts. Coeditors are generally not assigned manuscripts authored by an individual at his or her institution, by an individual with whom the Coeditor has been a recent coauthor, by an individual who has a close professional or personal relationship with the Coeditor, or by an individual who has served as a graduate student advisor or advisee of the Coeditor. Papers falling into these categories are handled by the Editor or by a different Coeditor with appropriate procedures for confidentiality of refereeing. Papers submitted by a Coeditor are handled by the Editor and papers submitted by the Editor are handled by a Coeditor, again employing appropriate confidentiality procedures. Manuscripts at the Review are reviewed in double-blind fashion: the name of the author is removed from the manuscript prior to its being sent out for review, and referee names are not revealed to authors. Comments submitted to the Review are refereed both by the author of the article being commented on and by other referees. Replies to Comments are sent to the author of the Comment and to other referees. There is no automatic right to Reply; the author of a Reply must provide substantive and material discussion of the issues in question. Comments and Replies which appear only on the AER Web page are also sometimes considered. These papers go through the same refereeing process as all Comments and Replies, but may be judged to be more appropriate for Internet posting instead of publication in the printed AER. Papers appearing in the May issue of the Review, the issue containing the Papers and Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, are handled separately. The President-Elect of the Association chooses the papers for publication with advice from a team of experts in the various fields. Policy on Data AvailabilityIt is the policy of the American Economic Review to publish papers only if the data used in the analysis are clearly and precisely documented and are readily available to any researcher for purposes of replication. Details of the computations sufficient to permit replication must be provided. The Editor should be notified at the time of submission if the data used in a paper are proprietary, or if, for some other reason, the above requirements cannot be met. The full data availability policy can be viewed at http://www.aeaweb.org/aer/data.php. CopyrightPermission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of American Economic Association publications for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not distributed for profit or direct commercial advantage and that copies show this notice on the first page or initial screen of a display along with the full citation, including the name of the author. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than AEA must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. The author has
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The American Economic Review Issues and Articles Tools Announcements! In 2008, close to 4 million persons accessed the American Economic Review through JSTOR, making it one of the top-five most popular journals on JSTOR. The coeditors of the AER would like to acknowledge our Excellence in Refereeing Award recipients! Two articles published in the American Economic Review in 2008 have received an Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence. Now in their thirteenth year, these distinguished annual awards recognize the 50 outstanding articles published by the top 400 management journals in the world. The articles are: Professor Joel Sobel assumes Coeditorship of AER as of July 1, 2009. Professor Dirk Krueger assumes Coeditorship of the AER as of January 1, 2009. AER announces that modal decision time for new submissions is 4 months and that 90 percent of new submissions are decided within 5 months. See AER Report of the Editor. |
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