Abstract
Journal publications are an important factor in evaluating an economic scholar's accomplishments. Although Taiwan's economics circle has ranked the various international and Taiwanese economic journals, there has been no discussion on how the circle evaluates scholars' publications. We test what kind of journals contribute more to the promotion of associate professors. We first use a bivariate probit model to test the contribution of journals at the four different levels. We find that publications in top international journals do not contribute significantly to promotion while ordinary international journals, top and ordinary Taiwanese journals help scholars significantly. We then use a duration model to see how much publication in journals of different levels help scholars in shortening the time they serve as associate professors. The results are consistent with the bivariate probit model: ordinary international, top and ordinary Taiwanese journals help more than top international journals.