Peer Review, Publication and the Diffusion of Economic Knowledge Joshua Gans University of Toronto WP@20000, July 2014
Publication and Peer Review Lags Working papers appear years before published work Working papers are not peer reviewed Almost: some are discussed at conferences Does publication mean anything? With 20,000 working papers and growing, what identifiers should be on NBER ‘published’ work?
Web Repository Options Open access Comments and Conference Discussions Dataset links Versions Links to published works Links to press and summaries Citations Should the NBER provide peer review (that is then submitted to journals)?