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Regional Science in Europe
Gunther Maier,Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Structure of the Presentation
Regional Science AssociationEuropean congresses and congress
participationCo-authorship in congress papersJournals in Regional Science
Regional Science Association
Founded 1954 by Walter IsardUS-basedfirst national / language sections
founded in Europe
Regional Science Association
Current Structure
RSAI
North American ERSA Pacific
Sections* ....* German Speaking* Slovak* ....
Regional Science Association
European Regional Science Association (ERSA) Association of sections Association registered in Belgium organizes European Congresses and
Summer Institutes ERSAC („parliament“) EOC („government“, president)
Regional Science Association
Sections organized according to the respective
national regulations each has a legal status some with professional administration
(Portuguese, Spanish) very different in size (30 - 2000
members)
European Congresses
European Congresses
Year Conference place ERSA congress Country1983 Poitiers France1984 Milan Italy1985 Budapest Hungary1986 Krakow Poland1987 Athens Greece1988 Stockholm Sweden1989 Cambridge UK1990 Lisbon Portugal1991 Istanbul Turkey1992 Louvain la Neuf Belgium1993 Moskou Russia1994 Groningen Netherlands1995 Odense Denmark1996 Zurich Switzerland1997 Rome Italy1998 Vienna Austria1999 Dublin Ireland2000 Barcelona Spain2001 Zagreb Croatia2002 Dortmund Germany2003 Jyvaskyla Finland2004 Porto Portugal2005 Amsterdam Netherlands
Participation in ERSA congresses
1998 - 2003published CD-ROMs„participation“ = (co-)author of a
paper on the CD-ROM.
Total participation
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
1998 /Vienna
1999 /Dublin
2000 /Barcelona
2001 /Zagreb
2002 /Dortmund
2003 /Jyväskylä
Top 10 countries by participation
Top 10 countries by participants
Participants vs. Participations (60+)
Chance for participation
Logit-model estimationIncreases over timedecreases with distance between
home and conference location BUT only for one-time participants
Co-authorship
Co-authorship of conference papers is an important form of cooperation in Regional Science in Europe.
Co-authorship - overview
Papers
Authors
Cities
Countries
one
one
one
more
more
more
1657
735 922
620 302
183 119
Co-authorship - overview
Co-authorship network
Co-authorship network
Dutch network
Barcelona network
Swiss network
Scandinavian network
Additional networks
Journals in Regional Science
Reputation, quality and impact of journals Increasing competition between
researchers, departments, schools, countries
Need to compare and evaluateEvaluating research is particularly
complicated (different disciplines, traditions, publication channels, journals)
Reputation, quality and impact
My study: reputation of regional science journals measured by questionnaire to (European) regional scientists.
Electronic survey (series of web-pages)Part 1: evaluation of journals
options adjusted dynamicallyPart 2: socioeconomic characteristics
The questionnaire
Part 1:
List of 200 journals
+
Most important
known
Ascending / descending
The questionnaire
Part 1: known journals are the options for further
questions ever used in your research? follow regularly? Usefulness for your own work (quintiles) Overall reputation (quintiles) Willingness to pay (allocate 50 value
points)
Sample and respondents
Basis: ERSA member directory + participant lists from ERSA congresses since 1998
3789 distinct email addresses3491 distinct usernumbers (duplicate
entries eliminated)2884 potential respondents
Respondents
740 valid responses (25.7% / 21.2%)
Results
Question 1, weighted (1st place = 5 points, 2nd place = 4 points, ...): index score1 REGIONAL STUDIES 11412 JOURNAL OF REGIONAL SCIENCE 8523 PAPERS IN REGIONAL SCIENCE 7014 REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS 6515 URBAN STUDIES 4566 ANNALS IN REGIONAL SCIENCE 4197 JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS 3818 ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A 3429 INTERNATIONAL REGIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW 206
10 EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES 20111 EUROPEAN URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES 16012 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY 15213 RESEARCH POLICY 14114 ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING B - PLANNING AND DESIGN 12515 AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW 11716 ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 10017 TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART A: POLICY AND PRACTICE 9918 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH 9419 ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY 9020 GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS 85
Results
„Regional Studies“ is the top journalInternational, Peer-reviewed, English
language journals in top positionsSpecialized (topic, language) journals
occupy nichesno significant differences between
countries or South and North of Europe.
Summary
Regional Science is successful and growing in Europe
Clear centers in Europe (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
agreed dominance of English-language, peer-reviewed journals
PREPARE opportunity
Proposal to Marie Curie passed evaluation, negotiations proceed
successfullytarget audience: PhD-students & joung
researchersstructure
focussed summer schools (teaching, presentation, career building)
special sessions at congresses
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