Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

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Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Area of ​​Expertise Risk theory and decision theory
language English
publishing company Springer Science + Business Media (Germany)
First edition 1989
Frequency of publication 3 times / year
Editor-in-chief W. Kip Viscusi
editor American Economic Association
Web link springer.com
Article archive link.springer.com
ISSN 1573-0476

The Journal of Risk and Uncertainty is an economics journal with a focus on risk theory and decision theory , special decisions under uncertainty . It is published by the German- Luxembourgish Springer-Verlag with a frequency of three issues per semester.

history

The Journal of Risk and Uncertainty was first published in March 1988, but at that time only appeared with a frequency of four issues per year. This frequency was increased to three editions per semester in 1993. The magazine's first editors-in-chief were Viscusi and Mark Machina ( University of California, San Diego ).

Content

The Journal of Risk and Uncertainty contains both theoretical and empirical articles that examine risk-bearing behavior and decision-making in the event of uncertainty. The journal serves as a medium for important, relevant research in the areas of decision analysis, economics, and psychology . The subject areas dealt with in this journal include decision theory and the economics of uncertainty, psychological models of voting behavior in the event of uncertainty, risk and politics, experimental studies of behavior in the event of uncertainty and empirical studies of real risk-bearing behavior. In general, articles begin with an introductory discussion that explains the nature of the research and its interpretation and the implications of the results on a level that is also accessible to researchers in other disciplines.

editorial staff

The editorial staff of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty will be headed this year (2015) by W. Kip Viscusi as editor-in-chief and Christina Stoddard as chief of staff . They are supported by 19 associate editors and a number of advisory editors. The advisory editors include Nobel Prize winners Kenneth Arrow and Daniel Kahneman .

reception

In a study by Kalaitzidakis et al. (2003) ranked 38th out of 159 evaluated publications in the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty , but fell in an updated study by Kalaitzidakis et al. (2011) ranked 51st out of 209 publications compared. In the economics publication ranking of the Tinbergen Institute at the University of Amsterdam , the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty is listed in category A (“very good general economics journals and top magazines in the respective subject”). Another study by the French economists Pierre-Phillippe Combes and Laurent Linnemer places the journal in the third-best category A with 47th place out of 600 economic journals.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (Editorial Board). springer.com, accessed October 11, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Background information on the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (English)
  3. ↑ 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)
  4. ↑ 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)
  5. ^ Journal ranking of the Tinbergen Institute (English) ( Memento from February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ 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]).