How to Publish Papers in High Quality Journals

How to Publish Papers in High Quality Journals Prepared by Carl R. Chen Editor, International Review of Economics and Finance For The 15 th Pacific Basin Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Management Annual Conference

I. Publication is very Competitive Source: Chan, Chen, and Lung, “One-and-Half Decades of Global Research Output in Finance: 1990 -2004, ” Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2007.

• Total JF-Pages Published Source: Chan, Chen, and Lung, “One-and-Half Decades of Global Research Output in Finance: 1990 -2004, ” Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2007.

II. Target Journals • What is my chance? Source: Chen and Huang, “Author Affiliation Index, Finance Journal Ranking, and the Pattern of Authorship, ” Journal of Corporate Finance, 2007, forthcoming.

III. Will Co-Authorship Enhance My Chance? Source: Chen and Huang, “Author Affiliation Index, Finance Journal Ranking, and the Pattern of Authorship, ” Journal of Corporate Finance, 2007, forthcoming.

• Co-Authorship between Elite and Non-Elite Programs Source: Chen and Huang, “Author Affiliation Index, Finance Journal Ranking, and the Pattern of Authorship, ” Journal of Corporate Finance, 2007, forthcoming.

• Co-Authorship between Top-80 and Non-Top 80 Programs Source: Chen and Huang, “Author Affiliation Index, Finance Journal Ranking, and the Pattern of Authorship, ” Journal of Corporate Finance, 2007, forthcoming.

IV. Most Commonly Seen Criticisms – Makes no contributions – Mechanical application of statistics (econometrics) – Simply adopting a different country’s data to an existing method (model) – Sloppy writing, grammatical errors, typos