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Who are the gatekeepers of economics? Geographic diversity, gender composition, and interlocking editorship of journal boards
Members of editorial boards play the role of gatekeepers of science because.
This paper analyses the national distribution of editorial boards members of
economics journal, their affiliation, and their gender. It studies also the
interlocking editorship network generated by the presence of a same person on
the editorial board of more than one journal. The analysis is based on a unique
database comprising all the 1,516 journals indexed in the database EconLit with
an active editorial board in 2019. For each journal, we manually collected the
names of the board members along with their affiliation, obtaining a database
containing more than 44,000 members from more than 6,000 institutions and 142
countries. These data allow to investigate the phenomenon of gatekeeping in
contemporary economics on an unprecedented large scale. The obtained results
highlight some common issues concerning the editorial gatekeeping, leading to
the conclusion that in Economics the academic publishing environment is
governed by an \'elite composed mainly of men affiliated with United States
\'elite universities. Homophily in terms of geographic, institutional and
gender distribution is higher in the most prestigious journal and among
Editors-in-Chief. Finally, it appears that `strategic decisions' in the
selection of board members reproduce this homophily.Comment: 23 pages, 23 table, 6 figure
Implementation of Road Safety Perception in Autonomous Vehicles in a Lane Change Scenario
Understanding human driving behavior is crucial to develop autonomous
vehicles' algorithms. However, most low level automation, such as the one in
advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS), is based on objective safety
measures, which are not always aligned with what the drivers perceive as safe
and their correspondent driving behavior. Finding the bridge between the
subjective perception and objective safety measures has been analyzed in this
paper focusing specifically on lane-change scenarios. Results showed
statistically significant differences between what is perceived as safe by
drivers and objective metrics depending on the specific maneuver and location
of drivers
Method for Comparison of Surrogate Safety Measures in Multi-Vehicle Scenarios
With the race towards higher levels of automation in vehicles, it is
imperative to guarantee the safety of all involved traffic participants. Yet,
while high-risk traffic situations between two vehicles are well understood,
traffic situations involving more vehicles lack the tools to be properly
analyzed. This paper proposes a method to compare Surrogate Safety Measures
values in highway multi-vehicle traffic situations such as lane-changes that
involve three vehicles. This method allows for a comprehensive statistical
analysis and highlights how the safety distance between vehicles is shifted in
favor of the traffic conflict between the leading vehicle and the lane-changing
vehicle.Comment: 6 page
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