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| Discipline | Economics |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Erzo FP Luttmer |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1911–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Am. Econ. Rev. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 0002-8282 |
| LCCN | 11007619 |
| JSTOR | 00028282 |
| OCLC no. | 847300958 |
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TheAmerican Economic Review is a monthlypeer-reviewedacademic journal first published by theAmerican Economic Association in 1911. The currenteditor-in-chief is Erzo FP Luttmer, a professor of economics atDartmouth College.[1] The journal is based inPittsburgh.[2]It is one of the "top five" journals in economics.
In 2004, theAmerican Economic Review began requiring "data and code sufficient to permit replication" of a paper's results, which is then posted on the journal's website. Exceptions are made for proprietary data.[3]
Until 2017, the May issue of theAmerican Economic Review, titled thePapers and Proceedings issue, featured the papers presented at the American Economic Association's annual meeting that January. After being selected for presentation, the papers in thePapers and Proceedings issue did not undergo a formal process of peer review.[4][5][6][7] Starting in 2018, papers presented at the annual meetings have been published in a separate journal,AEA Papers and Proceedings, which is released annually in May.[8]
The American Economic Association was founded in 1885. From 1886 until 1907 the association published thePublications of the American Economic Association. The first volume was published in six issues, from March 1886 to January 1887. The second volume in 1887–1888, and so on, until Volume XI in 1896. In that same year an issue with "General Contents and Index of Volumes I to XI" appeared. Most of the volumes contained only one text, for instance volume IV, issue 2 (April 1889) which contained an article bySidney Webb, entitled "Socialism in England".
In December 1897, a new series started, with only two issues.
In 1900 the third series started, with four issues yearly; this lasted until 1908.[9]
For the next three years the association published what was calledThe Economic Bulletin. It also appeared in four issues yearly. Every issue of theBulletin contained a section "Personal and Miscellaneous Notes" and a number of book reviews.[10]
In parallel with theBulletin, during the years 1908 to 1910 appeared theAmerican Economic Association Quarterly. Its header read "Formerly published under the title ofPublications of the American Economic Association and the numbering continued as third series, volumes 9 to 11.[11]
In March 1911, the first issue ofThe American Economic Review saw the light.
In 2011 a "Top 20 Committee", consisting ofKenneth Arrow,Douglas Bernheim,Martin Feldstein,Daniel McFadden,James M. Poterba, andRobert Solow, selected the following twenty articles to be the most important ones to appear in the journal:[12]
Thirteen of those authors have received theNobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
The journal can be accessed online viaJSTOR. In both 2006 and 2007, it was the most widely viewed journal of all the 775 journals in JSTOR.[13]
Other notable papers from the journal include:
In 2016, an anonymous group of economists collaboratively wrote a note alleging academic misconduct by the authors and editor of a paper published in theAmerican Economic Review.[14][15] The note was published under the name Nicolas Bearbaki in homage toNicolas Bourbaki.[16]