We study the impact of journal ranking systems on publication outlet choice. We investigate the publication behavior of UK-based scholars registered on IDEAS/RePEc and analyze the publication outcomes of their academic work uploaded to the repository. Our estimates suggest that authors strategically choose outlets to maximize their publication scores. Our identification strategy is based on exploiting the change in the British ABS journal ranking in 2015. Working papers written before the 2015 ABS journal ranking change are significantly less likely to be published in ex-post downgraded journals. The effect cannot be attributed to the overall change in journal quality.

我们研究期刊排名系统对出版物发行选择的影响。我们调查了在IDEAS / RePEc上注册的英国学者的出版行为，并分析了其上载到知识库中的学术作品的出版成果。我们的估计表明，作者从战略上选择了出版物以最大化其发表分数。我们的识别策略是基于2015年英国ABS期刊排名变化的基础上进行的。在2015年ABS期刊排名变化之前撰写的工作论文在事后降级的期刊上发表的可能性大大降低。该影响不能归因于日记质量的整体变化。