The JAE 's Positioning Within Agricultural Economics: A Text‐Based Analysis

IF 5.5 2区经济学 Q1 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2026-09-07 DOI:10.1111/1477-9552.70073

Leonardo Cei, Gianluca Stefani, Edi Defrancesco

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Abstract

On the occasion of the centenary of the Agricultural Economics Society, this study investigates the positioning of the Journal of Agricultural Economics (JAE) within the broader landscape of the main agricultural economics journals. We employ a quantitative text analysis approach, estimating a Structural Topic Model (STM) on a unique corpus of 13,140 abstracts from the JAE and six leading peer journals covering the period 1970–2024. Our results suggest that the JAE shares common trends with its peers, such as an increasing segmentation and specialisation of the topics addressed, and a commensurate growth in the use of specialised techniques, such as causal identification and experimental economics. At the same time, features differentiating the JAE from the other journals emerge as well. These include a strong focus on production issues and agricultural policy, as well as on the environmental and natural resource implications of production decisions. This contrasts with the relatively lower attention devoted to food and nutrition aspects, despite greater focus on consumption dynamics, in line with a general trend in the discipline. Overall, this analysis highlights that the JAE maintains a strong connection with core aspects of the discipline, while differentiating itself in specific areas of investigation.

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农业经济学中的农业经济学定位：基于文本的分析

在农业经济学会成立一百周年之际，本研究调查了《农业经济学杂志》（JAE）在主要农业经济学期刊的更广泛景观中的定位。我们采用了定量文本分析方法，对一个独特的语料库进行了结构主题模型（STM）的估计，该语料库包含了从1970年到2024年期间来自JAE和六个领先的同行期刊的13,140篇摘要。我们的结果表明，JAE与其同行共享共同的趋势，例如所讨论的主题的日益细分和专业化，以及专业技术的使用的相应增长，例如因果识别和实验经济学。同时，也表现出与其他期刊不同的特点。其中包括高度重视生产问题和农业政策，以及生产决定对环境和自然资源的影响。这与对食品和营养方面的关注相对较低形成对比，尽管更注重消费动态，符合该学科的总体趋势。总的来说，这一分析强调了JAE与该学科的核心方面保持着紧密的联系，同时在特定的研究领域中区分自己。

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来源期刊

Journal of Agricultural Economics 管理科学-农业经济与政策

CiteScore

7.90

自引率

2.90%

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审稿时长

>24 weeks

期刊介绍： Published on behalf of the Agricultural Economics Society, the Journal of Agricultural Economics is a leading international professional journal, providing a forum for research into agricultural economics and related disciplines such as statistics, marketing, business management, politics, history and sociology, and their application to issues in the agricultural, food, and related industries; rural communities, and the environment. Each issue of the JAE contains articles, notes and book reviews as well as information relating to the Agricultural Economics Society. Published 3 times a year, it is received by members and institutional subscribers in 69 countries. With contributions from leading international scholars, the JAE is a leading citation for agricultural economics and policy. Published articles either deal with new developments in research and methods of analysis, or apply existing methods and techniques to new problems and situations which are of general interest to the Journal’s international readership.