The World Bank Economic Review
The World Bank Economic Review ( WBER ) is an economic journal with a focus on quantitative development economics . The World Bank Economic Review is published on behalf of the World Bank by the publishing house Oxford University Press in its series Oxford Journals with a frequency of three issues per year.
history
The World Bank Economic Review was first published in September 1986. The background to the establishment of WBER was the desire of the World Bank to publish the results of its extensive and numerous research and development cooperation programs not only in specialized books and monographs, but in an academic journal. This should also promote a constructive exchange between the academic world and the development and economic policy practitioners within the World Bank. The WBER began with a frequency of four issues over 1986/1987 and from then on published three issues per year. The World Bank Economic Review claims to be the world's most widely read economic journal and is distributed to over 9,500 subscribers in non-OECD countries.
Content
The World Bank Economic Review is according to its own statement, the only magazine of its kind, which has specialized in the quantitative analysis of development policy. Subject to a rigorous evaluation process, the articles examine political decisions and therefore focus more on political relevance than on theoretical or methodological value. In line with its self-image, the World Bank Economic Review is aimed at economists and other social scientists in governments, business, international institutions, universities and research institutes. The WBER intends to publish the highest quality research in the field of economic development.
editorial staff
The editors of the World Bank Economic Review are headed by the editors Alain de Janvry ( University of California, Berkeley ) and Elisabeth Sadoulet (University of California, Berkeley), who are supported by a 29-member editorial board .
reception
In a study by Kalaitzidakis et al. (2003) ranked 37th out of 159 evaluated publications in the World Bank Economic Review , but could not be found in an updated study by Kalaitzidakis et al. (2011) to 35th place out of 209 publications compared. In the economic publication ranking of the Tinbergen Institute at the University of Amsterdam , the World Bank Economic Review is listed in category A (“very good general economic journals and top journals in the respective subject”). The journal has an impact factor of 1.263 (as of 2008) and, according to the Journal Citation Reports, ranks 41st out of 191 journals in the economics category, 9th out of 38 journals in the planning and development category and 11th out of 45 journals in the business / Finance.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Krueger, Anne O. (1986): A Note from the Vice President, Economics and Research, The World Bank , in: The World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 2-3.
- ↑ Archive information regarding WBER for 1987 (English)
- ↑ Information on WBER on the Oxford Journals website
- ↑ Background information on the World Bank Economic Review
- ↑ Editing of the World Bank Economic Review (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 )
- ↑ Impact Factor of the World Bank Economic Review (English)