Louise Curtis, Senior Vice President of Life and Social Sciences Publishing at Elsevier said on the Third Annual Conference of Government and Economics that the Journal of Government and Economics (JGE) play a key role in promoting the visibility and direction of the research in government economics. 

        According to Louise Curtis, JGE is the first professional international journal in the field of government and economics. Having worked in publishing for 22 years, she knows that it takes a tremendous amount of effort to get a new journal off the ground. On the importance of the discipline of government and economics, she said it is a relatively new field of study that addresses the role of government as a participant in the market economy. The growth in the research on related topics can be seen in the publishing data over the last five years, during which research on the role of government in economic activity has grown significantly, demonstrating a 30% increase in research output in the field overall. Curtis believes that journals play a key role in promoting the visibility of research, guiding the direction of study, supporting research findings to generate new real-world applications and impact, and helping new disciplines to take root and grow.