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September 8, 2026Journal of Agricultural EconomicsOpen Access

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

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LCLeonardo CeiGSGianluca StefaniEDEdi Defrancesco

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Overview

Quantitative text analysis reveals distinct topic specialization and policy focus across major agricultural economics journals, highlighting the Journal of Agricultural Economics' niche role.

Key Points

  • To assess the thematic positioning and evolution of the Journal of Agricultural Economics relative to leading peer journals over a 54-year period.
  • Applied a Structural Topic Model (STM) to perform quantitative text analysis.
  • Analyzed a corpus of 13,140 abstracts published between 1970 and 2024 from the Journal of Agricultural Economics and six leading peer journals.
  • Identified shared disciplinary trajectories across journals toward increased topic specialization and rising use of causal identification and experimental economics.
  • Demonstrated that the Journal of Agricultural Economics distinctly emphasizes production decisions, agricultural policy, and environmental implications, while allocating less coverage to food and nutrition.

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Cei et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9fd83b58e84d0ff5b47a50https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.70073
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