The Evaluation Indies of Academic Journals and the Productivity of Economics Research in Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number	25590045
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Economic theory
Research Institution	Osaka University
Principal Investigator	Serizawa Shigehiro 大阪大学, 社会経済研究所, 教授 (90252717)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	SHIBATA AKIHISA 京都大学, 経済研究所, 教授 (00216003)
Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha)	FUTAGAMI KOUICHI 大阪大学, 経済学研究科(研究院), 教授 (30199400)
Project Period (FY)	2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Keywords	統計調査 / インパクト・ファクター / Article Influence Score / 学術誌 / 研究評価 / 引用数
Outline of Final Research Achievements	We made data to analyze the productivity of economics research in Japan. We computed the average and median of the citations and the publications in international economics journals for each of 10 economics institutes and graduate schools in Japan. The 10 institutes and schools are: 5 economics and social science institutes in the national universities; the graduate school of economics of 5 national universities. In 2015, we added 4 graduate schools of the national universities to the survey.