| 期刊简介： | Economics is an open-access journal that does not charge any author fees. This is due to support by its founding institutions, the Kiel Institute for World Economy and the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. Both institutions belong to the Leibniz Association. Jointly, they launched the journal in 2007, and at that time, they also agreed to finance it.
Economics is a new type of academic journal in economics. By involving a large research community in an innovative open peer review process, the journal aims to provide fast access to top-quality papers. Publishing is seen as a cooperative enterprise between authors, editors, referees, and readers. Economics takes the form of an e-journal, i.e. submission, evaluation, and publication are electronic.
Economics embodies the following principles:
Open Access: Following the principle that knowledge is a public good, the journal adheres to the BOAI definition of open access: that users have the right to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles".
Open Assessment: The traditional peer review process is substantially supplemented by a puplic peer review process in which the community of active researchers from all over the world has a hand in the evaluation process. Due to interactive peer review and public discussion, economics provides fast and efficient quality assurance.
Speed: Submitted papers that have been identified as sufficiently promising for a referee process are made available on the journal’s homepage within three weeks as discussion papers. Thus, the time for new ideas to find their way into the scientific community is substantially reduced.
Add-on Services: Interested readers can take advantage of alert services announcing new papers in their fields. As far as possible, economics also provides hyperlinks to the referenced literature. |