Environmental & Resource Economics Report to the EAERE General Assembly Ian J. Bateman, Editor 21 st EAERE Annual Conference Helsinki, Finland, 24 th 27 th June 2015 Saturday 27 th June 2015, 12.15 13.45 pm, Room 12
ERE: Managing Editorial Board Jo Albers Stefan Ambec Ian Bateman Hassan Benchekroun Michael Burton Robert Elliott David Finnoff Michael Finus Timo Goeschl Anthony Heyes Phoebe Koundouri Andreas Lange John List Anil Markandya Klaus Moeltner Alistair Munro Céline Nauges Sheila Olmstead David Popp Daniel Rondeau. Thomas Sterner Rashid Sumaila Christian Vossler Ian Sue Wing Tomasz Zylicz Editorial Objective: To develop the quality and international standing of the journal
Results: Submission Numbers 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015* Very strong & sustained growth in submissions (more than tripled in the past ten years) * Based on submissions to 21/05/15
Growth in international submissions Year No. of countries submitting to ERE 2007 41 2008 42 2009 49 2010 54 2011 57 2012 70 2013 61 2014 66
Decision speed ERE Journal Turnaround Time in 2014: Average time between submission and first decision = 86 days (116 days in 2012)
Most cited articles by subject area (multi-year average) Green Accounts 7.7% Climate Change 19.2% Natural Resources 7.7% Valuation 38.5% Ecosystem Services 15.4% Energy 3.8% Biodiversity 3.8% Instruments 3.8% A more even mix than in the past (when valuation clearly dominated).
Most cited articles by issue type (multi-year average) Non-Special Issue 54.1% Special Issues 45.9% Strong reliance on SIs to generate large percentage of citations
Special Issues, Citations and Impact Factor IF 2014 = Cites in 2014 to ERE papers published 2012-13 Number of ERE papers published 2012-13 Special Issues form a vital contribution to ERE citations. However, in an effort to reduce backlog and improve publication times, no Special Issues were published in 2012. This had a somewhat negative impact on last years ERE Impact Factor (cites in 2013 to papers published in 2011-12) and a larger negative impact on this years IF.
ISI Impact Factor for ERE Impact of having no special issues in 2012 1.80 1.60 1.40 1.20 1.00 0.80 0.60 0.40 0.20 0.00 Impact of having no special issues in 2002 0.30 0.39 0.70 0.62 0.49 0.86 1.24 1.08 1.31 1.30 1.30 1.52 1.79 1.70 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 1.43 2012 will drop out of the calculation in 2016 (IF for 2015) and the IF should improve again
ISI Impact Factor (IF) Comparison Journal Title IF 2014 IF 2013 Ecological Economics 2.720 2.517 JEEM 2.394 2.522 Journal of Public Economics 1.581 1.820 Environmental & Resource Economics 1.426 1.703 Land Economics 1.338 1.365 Resource and Energy Economics 1.329 1.404 American Journal of Agricultural Economics 1.327 1.363 Environment and Development Economics 1.169 0.985 Journal of Forest Economics 1.143 1.786 Australian Journal of Agric. & Resource Economics 1.067 1.065 Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 0.526 0.433
Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Ranking 2009 2010 2015 ERE 2 2 3 Ecol. Econ. 3 3 3 JEEM 4 4 3
Initiatives to boost citations A number of special issues have been commissioned. These are being Guest Edited by leading researchers in the international field and feature a range of superb papers from highly respected authors. A small number of papers were directly commissioned from leading international figures including Kenneth Arrow, Rachel Croson, Kirk Hamilton, Jeff Vincent and Ed Barbier
Editorial Board changes 2014-15 Two new Co-Editors have joined the Editorial Board: Sheila Olmstead (University of Texas). Climate change, regulation, microeconomic quantitative analyses, policy. Michael Burton (University of Western Australia). Valuation and quantitative analyses.
Summary Good and improving throughput speed. Submissions growth has been very strong (tripled in 10 years). Quality measures such as rejection rates are at high levels. Download numbers are strong. Underlying growth in citations. A programme of measures is in place designed to maintain the growth of the journal.
Environmental & Resource Economics Report to the EAERE General Assembly Ian J. Bateman, Editor 21 st EAERE Annual Conference Helsinki, Finland, 24 th 27 th June 2015 Saturday 27 th June 2015, 12.15 13.45 pm, Room 12