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Most-Downloaded Articles During 2023

Of the articles published in EJW between 2004 and 2023, here are the top twenty in downloads during 2023. These numbers do not include downloads of the complete-issue PDF for the respective issue.

Most-Downloaded Articles During 2023
Rank Published Author(s) Title Downloads
1Mar. 2020Justin T. PickettThe Stewart Retractions: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis5,607
2Mar. 2023Deirdre N. McCloskeyMcCloskey’s 1988 Letter Responding to a Letter from the President of Penn State4,049
3Jan. 2009Blair JenkinsRent Control: Do Economists Agree?3,408
4Mar. 2019Adam LankfordConfirmation That the United States Has Six Times Its Global Share of Public Mass Shooters, Courtesy of Lott and Moody’s Data3,079
5Sept. 2023Jay Bhattacharya and Steve H. HankeSSRN and medRxiv Censor Counter-Narrative Science2,909
6Dec. 2004Peter MinowitzAdam Smith’s Invisible Hands2,658
7May 2011Davis, Figgins, Hedengren, and KleinEconomics Professors’ Favorite Economic Thinkers, Journals, and Blogs (along with Party and Policy Views)2,595
8Mar. 2023David BarkerTemperature and Economic Growth: Comment on Kiley2,573
9Sept. 2023Daniel B. KleinJournal of Accounting Research's Report on Its Own Research-Misconduct Investigation of an Article It Published2,473
10May 2009Gavin KennedyAdam Smith and the Invisible Hand: From Metaphor to Myth2,330
11Sept. 2008Dennis Coates and Brad R. HumphreysDo Economists Reach a Conclusion on Subsidies for Sports Franchises, Stadiums, and Mega-Events?2,256
12May 2013Robert SolowWhy Is There No Milton Friedman Today?2,198
13Sept. 2019David K. LewisConvention: A Philosophical Study—Introduction, Chapter I, and Chapter II2,187
14Sept. 2023David BarkerTemperature Shocks and Economic Growth: Comment on Dell, Jones, and Olken1,997
15Sept. 2016Langbert, Quain, and KleinFaculty Voter Registration in Economics, History, Journalism, Law, and Psychology1,976
16Sept. 2022David BarkerTemperature and U.S. Economic Growth: Comment on Colacito, Hoffmann, and Phan1,958
17Mar. 2020John R. Lott, Jr. and Carlisle E. MoodyBrought Into the Open: How the U.S. Compares to Other Countries in the Rate of Public Mass Shooters1,701
18May 2014Rupert Read and Nassim Nicholas TalebReligion, Heuristics, and Intergenerational Risk Management1,655
19Mar. 2023Florence R. LeCraw, Daniel Montanera, and Thomas A. MrozReassessing the Effects of a Communication-and-Resolution Program on Hospitals’ Malpractice Claims and Costs1,633
20Mar. 2023Robert KaestnerOrigins of the Opioid Crisis Reexamined1,476

Most-Downloaded Articles 2004–2023

Of the articles published in EJW since 2004, here are the top thirty in total downloads through December 31, 2023. These numbers do not include downloads of the complete-issue PDF for the respective issue.

Most-Downloaded Articles Through December 31, 2023
Rank Published Author(s) Title Downloads
1May 2011Davis, Figgins, Hedengren, and KleinEconomics Professors’ Favorite Economic Thinkers, Journals, and Blogs (along with Party and Policy Views)94,898
2Jan. 2009Blair JenkinsRent Control: Do Economists Agree?61,510
3Dec. 2004Peter MinowitzAdam Smith’s Invisible Hands60,924
4Sept. 2008Dennis Coates and Brad R. HumphreysDo Economists Reach a Conclusion on Subsidies for Sports Franchises, Stadiums, and Mega-Events?49,596
5Jan. 2008Daniel B. Klein and Harika Anna BarlettLeft Out: A Critique of Paul Krugman Based on a Comprehensive Account of His New York Times Columns, 1997 through 200645,130
6Jan. 2008Robert S. Goldfarb and Jon Ratner“Theory” and “Models”: Terminology Through the Looking Glass44,268
7Dec. 2006Daniel B. Klein and Stewart DompeReasons for Supporting the Minimum Wage: Asking Signatories of the “Raise the Minimum Wage” Statement38,498
8May 2009Gavin KennedyAdam Smith and the Invisible Hand: From Metaphor to Myth38,144
9Jan. 2010Lars Jonung and Eoin DreaIt Can’t Happen, It’s a Bad Idea, It Won’t Last: U.S. Economists on the EMU and the Euro, 1989–200233,458
10May 2014Rupert Read and Nassim Nicholas TalebReligion, Heuristics, and Intergenerational Risk Management32,829
11Sept. 2016Charlotta SternUndoing Insularity: A Small Study of Gender Sociology’s Big Problem32,208
12Sept. 2016Langbert, Quain, and KleinFaculty Voter Registration in Economics, History, Journalism, Law, and Psychology31,694
13May 2010Zeljka Buturovic and Daniel B. KleinEconomic Enlightenment in Relation to College-going, Ideology, and Other Variables: A Zogby Survey of Americans29,196
14Sept. 2007Daniel B. Klein, ed.Economists Against Smoot-Hawley25,780
15Aug. 2004Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre Nansen McCloskeySize Matters: The Standard Error of Regressions in the American Economic Review25,327
16Sept. 2009Robert WhaplesThe Policy Views of American Economic Association Members: The Results of a New Survey25,131
17Sept. 2010William R. AllenA Life Among the Econ, Particularly at UCLA25,046
18Aug. 2005Lawrence H. WhiteThe Federal Reserve System’s Influence on Research in Monetary Economics24,393
19Apr. 2004Edwin D. Maberly and Raylene M. PierceStock Market Efficiency Withstands Another Challenge: Solving the “Sell in May/Buy after Halloween” Puzzle23,397
20Aug. 2005Richard H. TimberlakeGold Standards and the Real Bills Doctrine in U.S. Monetary Policy23,362
21Apr. 2004Daniel B. Klein and Eric ChiangThe Social Science Citation Index: A Black Box—with an Ideological Bias?23,339
22Jan. 2008Douglas M. WalkerDo Casinos Really Cause Crime?22,627
23Sept. 2008Carlisle E. Moody and Thomas B. MarvellThe Debate on Shall-Issue Laws22,560
24Sept. 2012James TooleyBig Questions and Poor Economics: Banerjee and Duflo on Schooling in Developing Countries22,486
25May 2007Daniel B. Klein and Pedro P. RomeroModel Building versus Theorizing: The Paucity of Theory in the Journal of Economic Theory22,408
26Apr. 2005Fred E. FoldvaryGeo-Rent: A Plea to Public Economists21,610
27Aug. 2004Shirley SvornyLicensing Doctors: Do Economists Agree?20,842
28Dec. 2004Dan JohanssonEconomics Without Entrepreneurship or Institutions: A Vocabulary Analysis of Graduate Textbooks20,685
29May 2007Ian VasquezPeter Bauer: Blazing the Trail of Development20,369
30Apr. 2005Daniel B. KleinThe Ph.D. Circle in Academic Economics19,426

Complete-Issue PDF Downloads 2004–2023

Below are listed the issues of EJW from 2023 back to 2004, along with the number of times the complete PDF of each issue had been downloaded through December 31, 2023.

Complete-Issue PDF Downloads Through December 31, 2023
Issue Downloads
20(2): September 2023364
20(1): March 2023948
19(2): September 2022953
19(1): March 20221,139
18(2): September 20211,093
18(1): March 20212,449
17(2): September 20203,861
17(1): March 20201,496
16(2): September 2019319
16(1): March 20192,294
15(3): September 20182,343
15(2): May 20181,996
15(1): January 20182,306
14(3): September 20173,026
14(2): May 20172,880
14(1): January 20172,217
13(3): September 20164,844
13(2): May 20168,663
13(1): January 20165,677
12(3): September 20156,400
12(2): May 20156,978
12(1): January 20155,129
11(3): September 20145,849
11(2): May 20149,547
11(1): January 20145,294
10(3): September 201315,408
10(2): May 20137,426
10(1): January 20136,127
9(3): September 20129,068
9(2): May 20125,040
9(1): January 20125,648
8(3): September 20119,822
8(2): May 20114,975
8(1): January 20118,016
7(3): September 20108,173
7(2): May 20107,427
7(1): January 20108,494
6(3): September 20096,246
6(2): May 20095,885
6(1): January 200915,434
5(3): September 20088,283
5(2): May 20089,467
5(1): January 20089,918
4(3): September 200710,173
4(2): May 200712,256
4(1): January 20079,105
3(3): September 200610,292
3(2): May 200613,651
3(1): January 200616,973
2(2): August 200510,649
2(1); April 200512,247
1(3): December 200415,591
1(2): August 200413,075
1(1): April 200424,688