Games and Economic Behavior
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| description | Scientific journal |
| Area of Expertise | Economics |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Elsevier |
| First edition | 1989 |
| Frequency of publication | 8 issues per year |
| Editor-in-chief | Ehud Kalai , Marco Battaglini , Gary Charness , Vincent P. Crawford , Ehud Lehrer , David C. Parkes |
| Web link | website |
| ISSN |
0899-8256 |
Games and Economic Behavior ( GEB ) is an economics journal focusing on game theory and behavioral economics and published by the Dutch publisher Elsevier with two issues per trimester. Games and Economic Behavior is also the official journal of the Game Theory Society .
history
Games and Economic Behavior was first published in March 1989 by Academic Press, with Ehud Kalai as editor-in-chief. According to Kalai, the background for founding the journal was to create a medium for the publication of research at the interface of theory and application, which should be clearly interdisciplinary. According to Kalai, the academic self-image of the journal is explicitly shaped by the research work of Johann von Neumann , Oskar Morgenstern , Maynard Smith , Kenneth Arrow and Seppo Honkapohja . The magazine initially appeared with four issues per year, in 1994 with three issues per half-year, from 1995 to 2007 with two issues per quarter and since 2008 with two issues per trimester.
Content
Games and Economic Behavior aims to promote the exchange between theories and applications of game theory argumentation. To this end, the journal intends to attract the highest quality and most creative articles in interdisciplinary studies in the field of social, life and mathematical sciences. The aim of Games and Economic Behavior is to be the leading specialist magazine on the subject of game theory. Research articles published in the journal come from the following areas, among others: game theory , economics , political science , biology , computer science , mathematics and psychology .
editorial staff
The editorial team of Games and Economic Behavior consists of the editors-in-chief Ehud Kalai , Marco Battaglini Vincent P. Crawford , Ehud Lehrer and David C. Parkes , who are supported by Jennifer Byrd as Managing Editor and 69 Advisory Editors .
reception
In a study by Kalaitzidakis et al. (2003) ranked Games and Economic Behavior 11th out of 159 evaluated publications, but fell in an updated study by Kalaitzidakis et al. (2011) ranked 20th out of 209 publications compared. In the economics publication ranking of the Tinbergen Institute at the University of Amsterdam , Games and Economic Behavior is listed in category A (“very good general economics journals and top journals in the respective subject”). Another study by the French economists Pierre-Phillippe Combes and Laurent Linnemer places the journal in 20th place out of 600 economic journals in the second best category AA.
The Impact Factor of Games and Economic Behavior was 1,000 in 2012. In the statistics of the Social Sciences Citation Index , the journal was listed with this impact factor in 131st place out of 333 journals in the economics category.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Games and Economic Behavior Editorial Board. Retrieved September 23, 2015 .
- ↑ Kalai, Ehud (1989): Games and Economic Behavior , in: Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-4.
- ↑ Content and objectives of Games and Economic Behavior on Elsevier (English)
- ↑ Kalaitzidakis, Pantelis, Theofanis P. Mamuneas, Thanasis Stengos (2003): Rankings of Academic Journals and Institutions in Economics , Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 1, No. 6, pp. 1346-1366. (PDF; 177 kB)
- ↑ Kalaitzidakis, Pantelis, Theofanis P. Mamuneas, Thanasis Stengos (2011): An updated ranking of academic journals in economics , Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 1525-1538. (PDF; 337 kB)
- ↑ Magazine ranking of the Tinbergen Institute (English) ( Memento from February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Combes, Pierre-Philippe and Laurent Linnemer, Inferring Missing Citations: A Quantitative Multi-Criteria Ranking of all Journals in Economics . In: GREQAM Document de Travail . No. 2010-28 , 2010, pp. 26–30 (English, halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr [PDF]).
- ^ ISI Web of Knowledge, Journal Citation Reports, Social Sciences Edition, 2013.