Is the journal Ecological Economics really in itself a poor and misleading guide to what ecological economics is about? A reply to 'Influencing the perception of what and who is important in ecological economics'

摘要

We investigate what articles, journals, authors and institutions are influential in a combination of fields in agricultural, ecological, environmental and resource economics (Hoepner et al., 2012). The fields all investigate the natural environment, be it from different perspectives. Influence is based on the impact factors as reported in Thomson Reuter's Web of Knowledge. We analyze 6597 articles in fourteen economics journals for the period 2000-2009. In his comment, Professor Clive Spash states that "the journal Ecological Economics is in itself a poor and misleading guide to what ecological economics is about, exactly because it has devoted so much space to mainstream methods, studies and approaches." Furthermore, he suggests that our work is biased by its framing and sensitive to changes, in key definitions.