Report to the EAERE General Assembly

Ian J. Bateman, Editor

5th World Congress of Environmental & Resource EconomistsIstanbul, Turkey, 29th June – 2nd July, 2014

1st July 2014, 12.30 – 2.00 pm, Room 2

Environmental & Resource Economics

ERE: Managing Editorial BoardJo AlbersStefan AmbecIan Bateman Hassan BenchekrounRobert ElliottDavid FinnoffMichael FinusTimo GoeschlAnthony HeyesPhoebe KoundouriAndreas LangeJohn ListAnil MarkandyaKlaus MoeltnerAlistair MunroCéline NaugesDavid Popp Daniel RondeauThomas SternerU. Rashid SumailaChristian VosslerIan Sue Wing Tomasz Zylicz

Editorial Objective:To further develop the quality and international standing of the journal

Publication Overview 2013-14

2013 Volumes 54 - 56 (92 papers)

Special Issues:

• People & the Planet: Papers arising from the Royal Society report (55:4)

• The International Dimension of Climate Change Policy (56:2)

• The Economics & Management of Coastal & Marine Ecosystems (56:4)

2014 Volumes 57 - 59 (44 papers to date)

Special Issues:

• Economic Analysis for the UK National Ecosystem Assessment (57:2)

• Explorations in the Environment-Development Dilemma (57:4)

Results: Submission Numbers

Very strong & sustained growth in submissions (more than tripled in the past ten years)

* Based on 279 submissions till

06/06/14

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2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014*

Year No. of countries submitting to ERE2007 412008 422009 492010 542011 572012 702013 62

Growth in international submissions

Source: SpringerLink.)

Fulltext Article Requests 2010‐2013

Totals

2002 20, 000

2010 146,125

2011 147,361

2012 163,952

2013  147,972

Download trends

Downloads have grown more than seven fold since the site first opened and are now well over 12,000 per month

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

2010 9.119 10.181 12.063 12.575 11.653 12.729 6.787 7.306 8.144 12.918 22.011 20.639

2011 10.598 11.523 14.277 12.355 12.583 9.611 8.168 9.017 9.089 11.503 22.588 16.049

2012 9.960 12.425 13.771 11.380 11.777 9.989 8.100 7.867 9.129 16.270 25.923 27.361

2013 15.404 9.746 12.171 14.787 13.948 10.828 9.836 8.899 10.316 15.364 15.694 10.979

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ISI Impact Factor for ERE – as of last year*

* ISI have delayed release of annual IF statistics from mid June to late July.

Despite having a lower than usual number of Special Issues, last year the journal attained its highest ever Impact Factor (1.795)

ISI Impact Factor Comparison – as of last year*

Journal Title IF 2012

Ecological Economics 2.85 ↑JEEM 1.97 ↓

Environmental & Resource Economics  1.79 ↑  

Journal of Public Economics 1.52 ↑Resource and Energy Economics 1.49 ↓Australian Journal of Agricultural & Resource Economics 1.41 ↑Land Economics 1.26 ↓Journal of Forest Economics 1.20 ↑American Journal of Agricultural Economics 0.99 ↓ Environment and Development Economics 0.76 ↑Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 0.67 ↓

Special Issues for 2014-16 2014: Game Theory and Environmental and Resource Economics

- Guest Editors: Michael Finus & Bianca Rundshagen

Mathematical Bioeconomics and Beyond- Guest Editor: U.R. Sumaila

2015: Blueprints for Natural Resource Conservation & Environmental Protection: In Honour of Anil Markandya- Guest Editors: Ibon Galarraga, Mikel González-Eguino & Dirk Rübbelke

Recent Advances in Mechanism Design for Environmental Policy- Guest Editors: Frans de Vries & Nick Hanley

2016: The Economics of Complex Systems - Guest Editors: Aart de Zeeuw & Chuan-Zhong Li

Taking Stock of IPCC: The Future Path for Climate Research- Guest Editor: Thomas Sterner

Invited papers

• A small number of papers are directly commissioned from leadingauthors. For example, the following papers were invited andaccepted for publication during 2013-14:

• Kenneth J. Arrow and Marcel Priebsch “Bliss, Catastrophe, andRational Policy” (accepted, in press)

• Rachel Croson and Nicholas Treich "Behavioral EnvironmentalEconomics: Promises and Challenges“ (Based on EAEREToulouse Keynote; accepted, in press)

Editorial handling time

Journal Turnaround Time in 2013:

Average time between submission and first decision = 76 days

(102 days in 2012)

Editorial team

Retirements (to Scientific Advisory Board) Harmen Verbruggen Jared C. Carbone Daan van Soest Michael Rauscher

Recruitment: Stefan Ambec Ian Sue Wing Daniel Rondeau U. Rashid Sumaila

Summary Good and improving throughput speed. Submissions growth has been very strong (tripled in 10 years). Download numbers are strong. Strong underlying growth in citations and ISI impact factor

which has more than tripled since the journal was first listed. A programme of measures is in place designed to maintain the

growth of the journal.

Report to the EAERE General Assembly

Ian J. Bateman, Editor

5th World Congress of Environmental & Resource EconomistsIstanbul, Turkey, 29th June – 2nd July, 2014

1st July 2014, 12.30 – 2.00 pm, Room 2

Environmental & Resource Economics