The elevated pricing of field journals in economics, most of which are published by Elsevier, was one of the motivations that moved the American Economic Association to launch the American Economic Journal in 2009.
高涨的经济学领域期刊价格——当中多数由爱思唯尔出版——是推动美国经济学会于2009年创办《美国经济学报》（American Economic Journal ）的动机之一。