I received four emails today with "Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists X, Y, Month Year is now available online" in the subject line, where X, Y is:
- Vol. 1, No. 3
- Vol. 1, No. 4
- Vol. 2, No. 1
- Vol. 2, No. 2
This represents the first full year of regular submitted papers to the JAERE (Vol. 1, No. 1-2 included only invited papers). So I thought it would be interesting to see what sorts of papers are being published in JAERE. Here is a content analysis of the JEL codes reported by the authors:
Not surprising, the most highly represented JEL code is Environmental Economics (Q5). The next highest is microeconomics (D) [why would you even bother with D?] and energy (Q4). Surprising, at least to me, there has been only one paper with the valuation of environmental effects (Q51) code and none with the recreational aspects of natural resources (Q26) code. I wonder if any of these are being submitted? The job of an editorial council member is to review a lot of papers and I think I've only reviewed one so far.
Note:
- C Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
- D Microeconomics
- F International Economics
- H Public Economics
- I Health, Education and Welfare
- J Labor and Demographic Economics
- L Industrial Organization
- Q2 Renewable Resources and Conservation
- Q3 Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation
- Q4 Energy
- Q5 Environmental Economics
