Title: Who are the gatekeepers of economics? Geographic diversity, gender composition, and interlocking editorship of journal boards Show Chinese title

Title: 谁是经济学的把关人？ 地理多样性、性别构成和期刊编辑部的交叉编辑职位

Abstract: Members of editorial boards play the role of gatekeepers of science because. This paper analyses the national distribution of editorial boards members of economics journal, their affiliation, and their gender. It studies also the interlocking editorship network generated by the presence of a same person on the editorial board of more than one journal. The analysis is based on a unique database comprising all the 1,516 journals indexed in the database EconLit with an active editorial board in 2019. For each journal, we manually collected the names of the board members along with their affiliation, obtaining a database containing more than 44,000 members from more than 6,000 institutions and 142 countries. These data allow to investigate the phenomenon of gatekeeping in contemporary economics on an unprecedented large scale. The obtained results highlight some common issues concerning the editorial gatekeeping, leading to the conclusion that in Economics the academic publishing environment is governed by an \'elite composed mainly of men affiliated with United States \'elite universities. Homophily in terms of geographic, institutional and gender distribution is higher in the most prestigious journal and among Editors-in-Chief. Finally, it appears that `strategic decisions' in the selection of board members reproduce this homophily. Show Chinese abstract

Abstract: 编辑委员会成员扮演科学守门人的角色，因为。 本文分析了经济学期刊编辑委员会成员的国家分布、他们的隶属关系以及性别。 它还研究了由同一个人出现在多个期刊的编辑委员会中而产生的相互关联的编辑网络。 分析基于一个独特的数据库，该数据库包括2019年在EconLit数据库中索引的所有1,516种拥有活跃编辑委员会的期刊。 对于每份期刊，我们手动收集了委员会成员的姓名及其隶属关系，得到了一个包含来自6,000多所机构和142个国家的44,000多名成员的数据库。 这些数据使得能够以空前的大规模研究当代经济学中的守门现象。 获得的结果突显了编辑守门的一些共同问题，得出的结论是，在经济学领域，学术出版环境主要由隶属于美国精英大学的男性精英所主导。 在最著名的期刊和主编中，地理、机构和性别分布方面的同质性更高。 最后，似乎在选择委员会成员时的“战略决策”再现了这种同质性。