Career Advancement: from the perspective of a journal editor and conference organiser

1. Career Advancement:from the perspective of a journal editor and conference organiser 19th Advanced Summer School in Regional Science: GIS & Spatial Econometrics Groningen Jouke van Dijk Professor of Regional Labour Market Analysis Faculty of Spatial Sciences Department of Economic Geography University of Groningen

2. Paul Cheshire: So - you want an academic career… • A PhD is only a means to an end – ‘satisfy the examiners’. The ‘end’ is peer reviewed publication – collectively these are what constitute the ‘body of scientific knowledge’ • Aim for publication in refereed journals, impactfactors (seek rejections) • Have a publication strategy: Need a ‘pipeline’ • All publications take a significant and variable amount of time going through the process Working paper-conference paper-submission-revision-acceptance….proofs…citation? • Go to conferences, seminars etc; offer papers: you learn and gives discipline

3. Overview • Regional Science Assocation – ERSA • Papers in Regional Science as a journal • Submissions, referees, impact factors • RePeC: access statistics, Google Scholar • ERSA networks: conference participation, networks of co-authors

4. Regional Science Association International (RSAI) • Founded in 1954 by Walter Isard • Started by economist, with the intention to by multi- and interdisciplinairy, now geographers, planners, sociologist etc. participate • > 3000 international members and more in sections • Headquarters now for long in Illinois (USA) and now in Leeds (Graham Clark) • Worldcongres every four years: 2004 South Africa, next in 2008 in Brazil (?)

5. RSAI websitecwww.regionalscience.org

6. Regional Science Association International (RSAI) • Three subregional organisations • North America: NARSC, 53rd Toronto, November 2006 • Asia & Pacific: PRSCO, July every two year • Europe: ERSA,cwww.ersa.org, • ca. 20 national and language sections • Annual conferences • Summerschools

7. European Regional Science Association (ERSA) ERSA, annual conferences: • 46th August 2006 Volos • 47th 2007 Paris with PREPARE session!! • 48th 2008 Liverpool Young Scientist: Epainos Prize • Summerschools funded by EU PREPARE: • 2007 Bratislava (Slovakia) • 2008 Pecs (Hungary) • 2009 Volos (Greece) • ERSA bodies: • ERSA Council: representatives of sections • EOC European Organizing Committee • LOC Local Organizing Committee

8. Members of the European Organizing Committee • President: Prof. Paul Charles Cheshire • Secretary: Sari A. Pekkala • Treasurer: Lidia Diappi • Newsletter Editor: Prof.Dr. Gunther Maier • EOC Member: Prof.dr. Jan Oosterhaven • EOC Member: Enrique Lopez-Bazo • EOC Member: Dr. Philip McCann • Editor PIRS: Dr. Raymond J.G.M. Florax • Conference Organizer: Prof Dr HB Andre Torre • Conference Organizer: Dr Frank Reinier Bruinsma • Conference Organizer: Dr. Yannis Psycharis • Summer Institute: Prof. Tadeusz Markowski, PhD • Summer Institute: Dr. Zlatan Froehlich • EOC Member: Prof. Isabelle Thomas

9. Xwww.ersa.org

10. Papers in Regional Science • Official Journal of RSAI • Editor in Chief Raymond Florax, Purdue • Regional Editors: • Jessie Poon (NARSC) • Jacques Poot (PRSCO) • Jouke van Dijk (ERSA)

11. Papers in Regional ScienceEuropean Editor Jouke van Dijk • Paper submission by author(s): send good papers! • Do not send it to more than one journal! • Task Editor: check if paper fits in journal policy • Double blind (anonymous) refereing: three referees • As a referee: be critical, but also polite • Decision letter to author(s) with referee reports • Judgment: accept - minor revision – substantial revision – resubmit – reject • Revised version in the journal format with answers to questions referees • Revised version again to referees • Again decision letter to author(s) with referee report Publication (or not)

12. Geographical distribution of author pages in PiRS Only 10% of the pages is by female authors

13. Spatial distributions of publications in Papers in Regional Science 1995-2003

14. Spatial distributions of publications in Papers in Regional Science 1955-1964

15. Spatial dimension of authors in Regional Science

16. Number of submissions to PiRS

17. Acceptance rates PiRS: 46%  35%

18. Author pages by discipline in PiRS

19. Impact factors of regional science journals Regional StudiesInternational Regional Science Review Papers in Regional Science Journal of Regional Science Regional Science and Urban Economics Annals of Regional Science

20. Journal Citation Reports (JCR) • Impact Factor: Provides a way to evaluate or compare a journal’s relative importance to others in the same field • Immediacy Index: Measures how quickly an article is cited during year published • Cited Half-Life: Benchmarks the age of cited articles; useful in collection development

21. Impact factor • It measures how often articles in a specific journal have been cited:It measures the total number of quotes during a year of the two immediately preceding years' issues • Example: an impact factor of 2 means that every article published in issues of 2003 and 2004 was quoted in 2005 on average 2 times.

22. Cited Half-Life • Benchmarks the age of cited articles. It measures the number of years, going back from the current year, that account for half the total citations received by the cited journal in the current year. • Example: a value of 4 means that half of all the quotations from the journal in the year 2005 referred to articles published in the last 4 years. The remaining half, then, concerns articles older than 4 years.

23. Citation Source paper – published in 2005 Cited reference – published in 2004 or 2003 Immediacy Index 2005 2004 2003 All Previous Years Impact Factor Cited ½ Life Cited reference – published in 2005 Citation information:awww.thomsonisi.com Limited access

24. Journal comparison Impact Immediacy Cit Half-life • J. Econ. Geogr 3.2 0.37 2 • Prog. Hum.Geog 2.6 0.29 5 • Econ Geography 1.8 0.2 9 • Environ & Plan D 1.6 0.2 7 • Regional Studies 1.5 0.13 7 • Environ & Plan A 1.4 0.38 6 • Area 1.1 0.12 7 • Antipode 1.1 0.25 4 • Papers in Reg.Sci. 0.5 0.07 > 10 Gunther Maier: survey among regional scientists about journal importance PiRS?

25. RePEc: your monthly statisticswww.repec.org

26. E-mail alert every month ahttp://scholar.google.nl/ for literature search and citations

27. Overview • Regional Science Assocation – ERSA • Papers in Regional Science as a regional science journal • Submissions, referees, impact factors • RePeC: access statistics, Google Scholar • ERSA networks: conference participation, networks of co-authors

28. Co-authorship in Regional Science:A Network Approach Gunther Maier Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Abteilung für Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung Austria Jouke van Dijk University of Groningen Faculty of Spatial Sciences The Netherlands

29. Co-authorship networks / authors

30. The Dutch network

31. The Barcelona network

32. The Swiss network

33. The Scandinavian network

34. Other significant components

35. Career Advancement:from the perspective of a journal editor and conference organiser 19th Advanced Summer School in Regional Science: GIS & Spatial Econometrics Groningen Jouke van Dijk Professor of Regional Labour Market Analysis Faculty of Spatial Sciences Department of Economic Geography University of Groningen