Speaker: Assistant Professor Li Tianshu (International Business School Suzhou at XJTLU)
Host: Assistant Professor Yang Cheng(China Institute of Economic, Liaoning University)
Guest introduction: Professor Ma Xiangjun(China Institute of Economic, Liaoning University)
Time: September 13, 2024 (Friday) 14:00-15:30 (Beijing time)
Location: Conference Room, 1st Floor, Wuzhou Park, Chongshan Campus, Liaoning University
Online Venue: Tencent Meeting:358-6417-4104
Language: Chinese/English
Abstract: Editorial favoritism in academic journals distorts the allocation of academic resources and reduces knowledge productivity. This paper uses China’s CSSCI publication data of “Project-211” universities from 2000 to 2019, and adopts double- and triple-differences methodologies to identify the impact of adopting double-blind review on the publication of articles with alumni connections to journals' editors-in-chief. We find that the reform effectively reduces the number of such publications and improves the impact factors of journals. The reform is effective only for journals that do not charge for publication fees, academically specialized, and with editors-in-chief holding doctoral degrees, and also has effectively improved the quality of manuscripts published.
Introduction to the speaker:
Li Tianshu, assistant professor atInternational Business School Suzhou at XJTLU, is from Shenyang. After graduating from high school at Northeastern Yucai School, he received bachelor's and master's degrees in economics from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and a doctorate in economics from the University of Virginia in the United States. He then engaged in postdoctoral research on interdisciplinary projects in the field of water resources at Darden School of Business. His research includes topics such as water rights trading, water quality management, afforestation, carbon emissions, air pollution, and poverty alleviation policies, and he has participated in multiple US National Science Foundation projects. Research results have been published in many interdisciplinary international journals in the fields of economics and environmental science, including Nature Sustainability (IF: 16.22), Water Resources Research (IF: 4.6), Environmental Research Letters (IF: 6.95), Advances in Water Resources ( IF: 5.36), World Bank Economic Review, Land Economics and China Economic Review, etc.
