Career Advancement: from the perspective of a journal editor and conference organiser

Fac ulty of Spatial Sc ienc es

© Prof.dr Jouke van Dijk

ERSA Summerschool July 2006

Career Advancement:from the perspective of a journal editor and conference organiser

Jouke van DijkProfessor of Regional Labour Market Analysis

Faculty of Spatial SciencesDepartment of Economic Geography

University of Groningen

19th Advanced Summer Schoolin Regional Science:

GIS & Spatial Econometrics Groningen




Paul Cheshire: So - you want an academic career…

• A PhD is only a means to an end – ‘satisfy the examiners’. The ‘end’ is peer reviewed publication – collectively these are what constitute the ‘body of scientific knowledge’

• Aim for publication in refereed journals, impactfactors (seek rejections)

• Have a publication strategy: Need a ‘pipeline’• All publications take a significant and variable

amount of time going through the processWorking paper-conference paper-submission-

revision-acceptance….proofs…citation? Go to conferences, seminars etc; offer papers:

you learn and gives discipline




Overview

• Regional Science Assocation – ERSA

• Papers in Regional Science as a journal

• Submissions, referees, impact factors

• RePeC: access statistics, Google Scholar

• ERSA networks: conference participation, networks of co-authors



ERSA Summerschool July 2006Regional Science Association

International (RSAI)• Founded in 1954 by Walter Isard• Started by economist, with the intention to by

multi- and interdisciplinairy, now geographers, planners, sociologist etc. participate

• > 3000 international members and more in sections

• Headquarters now for long in Illinois (USA) and now in Leeds (Graham Clark)

• Worldcongres every four years: 2004 South Africa, next in 2008 in Brazil (?)



ERSA Summerschool July 2006RSAI website

cwww.regionalscience.org



ERSA Summerschool July 2006Regional Science Association

International (RSAI)

• Three subregional organisations

– North America: NARSC, 53rd Toronto, November 2006

– Asia & Pacific: PRSCO, July every two year

– Europe: ERSA,cwww.ersa.org,

• ca. 20 national and language sections• Annual conferences• Summerschools



ERSA Summerschool July 2006European Regional Science

Association (ERSA)ERSA, annual conferences:

– 46th August 2006 Volos– 47th 2007 Paris with PREPARE session!!– 48th 2008 LiverpoolYoung Scientist: Epainos Prize

• Summerschools funded by EU PREPARE:– 2007 Bratislava (Slovakia)– 2008 Pecs (Hungary)– 2009 Volos (Greece)

• ERSA bodies:– ERSA Council: representatives of sections– EOC European Organizing Committee– LOC Local Organizing Committee




Members of the European Organizing Committee

• President: Prof. Paul Charles Cheshire • Secretary: Sari A. Pekkala • Treasurer: Lidia Diappi • Newsletter Editor: Prof.Dr. Gunther Maier • EOC Member: Prof.dr. Jan Oosterhaven • EOC Member: Enrique Lopez-Bazo • EOC Member: Dr. Philip McCann • Editor PIRS: Dr. Raymond J.G.M. Florax • Conference Organizer: Prof Dr HB Andre Torre • Conference Organizer: Dr Frank Reinier Bruinsma • Conference Organizer: Dr. Yannis Psycharis • Summer Institute: Prof. Tadeusz Markowski, PhD • Summer Institute: Dr. Zlatan Froehlich • EOC Member: Prof. Isabelle Thomas




Xwww.ersa.org




Papers in Regional Science

• Official Journal of RSAI• Editor in Chief Raymond Florax, Purdue• Regional Editors:

– Jessie Poon (NARSC)– Jacques Poot (PRSCO)– Jouke van Dijk (ERSA)




Papers in Regional ScienceEuropean Editor Jouke van Dijk

• Paper submission by author(s): send good papers!• Do not send it to more than one journal!• Task Editor: check if paper fits in journal policy • Double blind (anonymous) refereing: three referees• As a referee: be critical, but also polite• Decision letter to author(s) with referee reports• Judgment: accept - minor revision – substantial

revision – resubmit – reject• Revised version in the journal format with answers to

questions referees • Revised version again to referees• Again decision letter to author(s) with referee report

Publication (or not)




Geographical distribution of author pages in PiRS

Only 10% of the pages is by female authors



ERSA Summerschool July 2006Spatial distributions of publications in

Papers in Regional Science 1995-2003



ERSA Summerschool July 2006Spatial distributions of publications in

Papers in Regional Science 1955-1964




Spatial dimension of authors in Regional Science

Table 1. Ranking of European cities in the worldwide top 25 according to author-pagespublished

Rank 1955-1964 1965-1974 1975-1984 1985-1994 1995-2003 1955-20031 Zagreb London Amsterdam Liverpool Barcelona Amsterdam2 Warsaw Warsaw Stockholm Vienna Zaragoza London3 Athens Moscow Rotterdam Umea Amsterdam Rotterdam4 Barcelona Geneva Vienna Amsterdam London Stockholm5 Budapest Laxenburg Eindhoven Groningen Warsaw6 Paris Munich Milan Helsinki Vienna7 Budapest Stockholm Glasgow Budapest8 Karlsruhe Athens Milan9 Leeds Groningen

10 Laxenburg11 Paris12 Madrid13 Florence

Source: Florax and Plane (2004), Table 7, p. 20.




Number of submissions to PiRS




Acceptance rates PiRS: 46% 35%




Author pages by discipline in PiRS




Impact factors of regional science journals

Regional Studies International Regional Science Review

Papers in Regional Science

Journal of Regional Science

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Annals of Regional Science




Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

• Impact Factor: Provides a way to evaluate or compare a journal’s relative importance to others in the same field

• Immediacy Index: Measures how quickly an article is cited during year published

• Cited Half-Life: Benchmarks the age of cited articles; useful in collection development




Impact factor

• It measures how often articles in a specific journal have been cited: It measures the total number of quotes during a year of the two immediately preceding years' issues

• Example: an impact factor of 2 means that every article published in issues of 2003 and 2004 was quoted in 2005 on average 2 times.




Cited Half-Life

• Benchmarks the age of cited articles. It measures the number of years, going back from the current year, that account for half the total citations received by the cited journal in the current year.

• Example: a value of 4 means that half of all the quotations from the journal in the year 2005 referred to articles published in the last 4 years. The remaining half, then, concerns articles older than 4 years.




2005 2004 2003

Source paper – published in 2005

Cited reference – published in 2005

Cited reference – published in 2004 or 2003

Citation

Immediacy Index

Impact Factor

All Previous Years

Cited ½ Life

Citation information:awww.thomsonisi.com Limited access




Journal comparison Impact Immediacy Cit Half-life

• J. Econ. Geogr 3.2 0.37 2• Prog. Hum.Geog 2.6 0.29 5• Econ Geography 1.8 0.2 9• Environ & Plan D1.6 0.2 7• Regional Studies 1.5 0.13 7• Environ & Plan A 1.4 0.38 6• Area 1.1 0.12 7• Antipode 1.1 0.25 4• Papers in Reg.Sci. 0.5 0.07 > 10

Gunther Maier: survey among regional scientists about journal importance PiRS?



ERSA Summerschool July 2006RePEc: your monthly statistics

www.repec.org




ahttp://scholar.google.nl/ for literature search and citations

E-mail alert every month




Overview

• Regional Science Assocation – ERSA

• Papers in Regional Science as a regional science journal

• Submissions, referees, impact factors

• RePeC: access statistics, Google Scholar

• ERSA networks: conference participation, networks of co-authors




Co-authorship in Regional Science:A Network Approach

Gunther MaierWirtschaftsuniversität Wien

Abteilung für Stadt- und RegionalentwicklungAustria

Jouke van DijkUniversity of Groningen

Faculty of Spatial SciencesThe Netherlands




Co-authorship networks / authors




The Dutch network




The Barcelona network




The Swiss network




The Scandinavian network




Other significant components




Career Advancement:from the perspective of a journal editor and conference organiser

Jouke van DijkProfessor of Regional Labour Market Analysis

Faculty of Spatial SciencesDepartment of Economic Geography

University of Groningen

19th Advanced Summer Schoolin Regional Science:

GIS & Spatial Econometrics Groningen

Career Advancement: from the perspective of a journal editor and conference organiser

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