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I had promised myself I would resume posting regularly in August after taking the summer off from blogging, but it’s a busy month (as you read this, I am in the Peruvian Altiplano launching a field research project on quinoa), so here are the slides for my presentation of my paper with Nick Carnes titled “Why Do Members of Congress Support Agricultural Protection?” at this year’s annual meetings of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

This paper is now a revise and resubmit at Food Policy, and a revised, improved version is available; email me if you are interested in reading it.

The graduate student section (GSS) of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association had asked my Ohio State colleague Brian Roe, co-editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics,  to present on the topic of how to publish in academic journals at a GSS-organized session on academic communication at last week’s annual meetings in Minneapolis.

Because his flight was leaving too early to allow him to do so, Brian asked me to sub for him. Here are my slides for that talk, in .pdf format. Because of my audience, this is agricultural-and-applied-economics-centric, but I think those of you in other fields of economics and in other disciplines can find something useful in there.

From the ISI Web of Knowledge Journal Citations Report, here is the new top 5 of agricultural economics journals:

1. Food Policy 2.331
2. European Review of Agricultural Economics 1.467
3. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 1.363
4. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 1.328
5. Agricultural Economics 1.085

The number to the right of each journal name is the journal’s impact factor, which has been calculated on the basis of calendar year 2013 citation numbers.

This has been a very good year for agricultural economics journals. I know for one that the impact factors for Food Policy and the American Journal of Agricultural Economics (AJAE) have both increased. I am proud to serve as associate editor at both journals.

That is but one top 5, however. Bear in mind that the rank ordering might differ significantly depending on what other indicators of quality you look at, or whether you consider reputation. In agricultural and applied economics departments, for example, many people still consider the AJAE as the no-contest top journal in the field, no matter what impact factors may say.

ht: Bhavani Shankar.