1. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Career Advancement: from the perspective of a journal editor and conference organiser Jouke van Dijk Professor of Regional Labour Market Analysis Faculty of Spatial Sciences Department of Economic Geography University of Groningen 19 th Advanced Summer School in Regional Science: GIS & Spatial Econometrics Groningen

2. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Paul Cheshire: So - you want an academic career … •A PhD is only a means to an end – ‘satisfy the examiners’. The ‘end’ is peer reviewed publication – collectively these are what constitute the ‘body of scientific knowledge’ •Aim for publication in refereed journals, impactfactors (seek rejections) •Have a publication strategy: Need a ‘pipeline’ •All publications take a significant and variable amount of time going through the process Working paper-conference paper-submission-revision- acceptance….proofs…citation?  Go to conferences, seminars etc; offer papers: you learn and gives discipline

3. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Overview •Regional Science Assocation – ERSA •Papers in Regional Science as a journal •Submissions, referees, impact factors •RePeC: access statistics, Google Scholar •ERSA networks: conference participation, networks of co-authors

4. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Regional Science Association International (RSAI) •Founded in 1954 by Walter Isard •Started by economist, with the intention to by multi- and interdisciplinairy, now geographers, planners, sociologist etc. participate •> 3000 international members and more in sections •Headquarters now for long in Illinois (USA) and now in Leeds (Graham Clark) •Worldcongres every four years: 2004 South Africa, next in 2008 in Brazil (?)

5. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 RSAI website c www.regionalscience.org

6. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Regional Science Association International (RSAI) •Three subregional organisations –North America: NARSC, 53 rd Toronto, November 2006 –Asia & Pacific: PRSCO, July every two year –Europe: ERSA,cwww.ersa.org, •ca. 20 national and language sections •Annual conferences •Summerschools

7. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 European Regional Science Association (ERSA) ERSA, annual conferences: –46 th August 2006 Volos –47 th 2007 Paris with PREPARE session!! –48 th 2008 Liverpool Young Scientist: Epainos Prize •Summerschools funded by EU PREPARE: –2007 Bratislava (Slovakia) –2008 Pecs (Hungary) –2009 Volos (Greece) •ERSA bodies: –ERSA Council: representatives of sections –EOC European Organizing Committee –LOC Local Organizing Committee

8. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Members of the European Organizing Committee •President: Prof. Paul Charles CheshireProf. Paul Charles Cheshire •Secretary: Sari A. PekkalaSari A. Pekkala •Treasurer: Lidia DiappiLidia Diappi •Newsletter Editor: Prof.Dr. Gunther MaierProf.Dr. Gunther Maier •EOC Member: Prof.dr. Jan OosterhavenProf.dr. Jan Oosterhaven •EOC Member: Enrique Lopez-BazoEnrique Lopez-Bazo •EOC Member: Dr. Philip McCannDr. Philip McCann •Editor PIRS: Dr. Raymond J.G.M. FloraxDr. Raymond J.G.M. Florax •Conference Organizer: Prof Dr HB Andre TorreProf Dr HB Andre Torre •Conference Organizer: Dr Frank Reinier BruinsmaDr Frank Reinier Bruinsma •Conference Organizer: Dr. Yannis PsycharisDr. Yannis Psycharis •Summer Institute: Prof. Tadeusz Markowski, PhDProf. Tadeusz Markowski, PhD •Summer Institute: Dr. Zlatan FroehlichDr. Zlatan Froehlich •EOC Member: Prof. Isabelle ThomasProf. Isabelle Thomas

9. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Xwww.ersa.org

10. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Papers in Regional Science •Official Journal of RSAI •Editor in Chief Raymond Florax, Purdue •Regional Editors: –Jessie Poon (NARSC) –Jacques Poot (PRSCO) –Jouke van Dijk (ERSA)

11. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Papers in Regional Science European Editor Jouke van Dijk •Paper submission by author(s): send good papers! •Do not send it to more than one journal! •Task Editor: check if paper fits in journal policy •Double blind (anonymous) refereing: three referees •As a referee: be critical, but also polite •Decision letter to author(s) with referee reports •Judgment: accept - minor revision – substantial revision – resubmit – reject •Revised version in the journal format with answers to questions referees •Revised version again to referees •Again decision letter to author(s) with referee report  Publication (or not)

12. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Geographical distribution of author pages in PiRS Only 10% of the pages is by female authors

13. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Spatial distributions of publications in Papers in Regional Science 1995-2003

14. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Spatial distributions of publications in Papers in Regional Science 1955-1964

15. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Spatial dimension of authors in Regional Science

16. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Number of submissions to PiRS

17. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Acceptance rates PiRS: 46%  35%

18. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Author pages by discipline in PiRS

19. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Impact factors of regional science journals Regional Studies International Regional Science Review Papers in Regional Science Journal of Regional Science Regional Science and Urban Economics Annals of Regional Science

20. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) •Impact Factor: Provides a way to evaluate or compare a journal’s relative importance to others in the same field •Immediacy Index: Measures how quickly an article is cited during year published •Cited Half-Life: Benchmarks the age of cited articles; useful in collection development

21. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Impact factor •It measures how often articles in a specific journal have been cited: It measures the total number of quotes during a year of the two immediately preceding years' issues •Example: an impact factor of 2 means that every article published in issues of 2003 and 2004 was quoted in 2005 on average 2 times.

22. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Cited Half-Life •Benchmarks the age of cited articles. It measures the number of years, going back from the current year, that account for half the total citations received by the cited journal in the current year. •Example: a value of 4 means that half of all the quotations from the journal in the year 2005 referred to articles published in the last 4 years. The remaining half, then, concerns articles older than 4 years.

23. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 200520042003 Source paper – published in 2005 Cited reference – published in 2005 Cited reference – published in 2004 or 2003 Citation Immediacy Index Impact Factor All Previous Years Cited ½ Life Citation information:awww.thomsonisi.com Limited access

24. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Journal comparison ImpactImmediacyCit Half-life •J. Econ. Geogr3.20.37 2 •Prog. Hum.Geog2.60.29 5 •Econ Geography1.80.2 9 •Environ & Plan D1.60.2 7 •Regional Studies1.50.13 7 •Environ & Plan A1.40.38 6 •Area1.10.12 7 •Antipode1.10.25 4 •Papers in Reg.Sci.0.50.07> 10 Gunther Maier: survey among regional scientists about journal importance  PiRS?

25. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 RePEc: your monthly statistics www.repec.org

26. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 ahttp://scholar.google.nl/ for literature search and citations E-mail alert every month

27. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Overview •Regional Science Assocation – ERSA •Papers in Regional Science as a regional science journal •Submissions, referees, impact factors •RePeC: access statistics, Google Scholar •ERSA networks: conference participation, networks of co-authors

28. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Co-authorship in Regional Science: A Network Approach Gunther Maier Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Abteilung für Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung Austria Jouke van Dijk University of Groningen Faculty of Spatial Sciences The Netherlands

29. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Co-authorship networks / authors

30. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 The Dutch network

31. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 The Barcelona network

32. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 The Swiss network

33. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 The Scandinavian network

34. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Other significant components

35. © Prof.dr Jouke van DijkERSA Summerschool July 2006 Career Advancement: from the perspective of a journal editor and conference organiser Jouke van Dijk Professor of Regional Labour Market Analysis Faculty of Spatial Sciences Department of Economic Geography University of Groningen 19 th Advanced Summer School in Regional Science: GIS & Spatial Econometrics Groningen