Economics Publication Survey Data

After excluding all technological and pedagogical universities, our sample of universities consists of all remaining universities in Austria (6) and Switzerland (6). For Germany, all eight so-called “Exzellenz Universitäten” (excellence universities) were selected along with eight randomly chosen universities as a comparison group. This comparison was implemented to investigate the potential differences between these groups of universities.

In total, our sample consists of 26 universities. Among the universities, economics and business administration faculties were differentiated and received - with one exception - the same questions in the survey. Only one question was slightly modified due to the particularity of the Top Five journals in economics (the survey questions are shown in the documentation file).

A further reason for the differentiation between economics and business studies are the varying standards and customs, also with respect to publishing.