How would you value/rank various journals known to be friendly to behavioral work?
Which are the top 'field' journals?
Some journals to consider (please add):
Experimental Economics
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Journal of Economic Psychology
Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Judgment and Decision Making
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
There isn't a top field in behavioral per se, but many top fields are open to behavioral work, depending on the topic, e.g. JET, GEB, JPubE, AEJ Micro. Also 2nd tier generals like EJ, JEEA, EER. Management Science is in a similar tier I'd say.
After that, Experimental Economics is good. It's trying to become a "top field" for experimental. Also some good field journals in smaller fields like JEEM, JRU.
Next I'd put JEBO and JoEP, with a small edge to JEBO. Generals of similar quality that also publish behavioral include EI, SJE, EL. Some other field journals like ET, IJGT, PC.
I'd put JBEE pretty low, maybe similar to EB (which also publishes behavioral btw). For now, the new JESA I guess is similar, but hard to say how it will be seen down the road.
Less familiar with the other journals you mentioned.
Personally, I've picked up more buzz about JBEE than about ROBE/TD/JITE/EB/Kyklos. Maybe it's just the circles I'm in, but JBEE seems more relevant, the authors better known, and familiar working papers end up there. Decent editorial board, as well.
JBEE was socio-econ (or something like that), right?
Decision is trying to be top-top psych journal, but I'm worried that it will remain second-tier. Solid people publish there, but the material is just too obscure and irrelevant.
OBHDP should be equivalent to a 'top field'. At least in business schools: FT50 and ABS 4. Great impact factor.
JDM probably publishes work on par with OBHDP, but OBHDP wins on a legacy as a top journal (with many 'classic' jdm-style papers). JDM is ABS 3, with a good impact factor.
JBDM is probably par with JDM, although their top editor (Wright) is weak. Might spell a problem for the future, although the journal has become pretty established in the JDM-community (thus also in behavioral econ): ABS 3, with a good impact factor.
Concluding: these journals can compare favorably to second-tier econ journals in business schools and in (European/UK) departments that look to the ABS-ranking, especially when you're free to make a case on the basis of impact factors. This is a general advantage of publishing in psych journals.
Any view on how the following journals compare to the econ journals?
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Judgment and Decision Making
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
Decision
Yes. The problem with the previous title is the socioeconomics is often used by sociologists for very heterodox, qualitative stuff. JBEE is an effort to re-focus and re-brand.
Personally, I've picked up more buzz about JBEE than about ROBE/TD/JITE/EB/Kyklos. Maybe it's just the circles I'm in, but JBEE seems more relevant, the authors better known, and familiar working papers end up there. Decent editorial board, as well.JBEE was socio-econ (or something like that), right?
Note: prior name was, 'Journal of Socioeconomics'.
Yes. The problem with the previous title is the socioeconomics is often used by sociologists for very heterodox, qualitative stuff. JBEE is an effort to re-focus and re-brand.
Personally, I've picked up more buzz about JBEE than about ROBE/TD/JITE/EB/Kyklos. Maybe it's just the circles I'm in, but JBEE seems more relevant, the authors better known, and familiar working papers end up there. Decent editorial board, as well.JBEE was socio-econ (or something like that), right?