This article poses a new methodology applying the statistical analysis to the economic literature. This analysis has never been used in the history of economic thought, albeit it may open up new possibilities and provide us with further explanations so as to reconsider theoretical issues. With...

We examined the frequency of replications published in the two leading forecasting journals, the International Journal of Forecasting (IJF) and the Journal of Forecasting (JoF). Replications in the IJF and JoF comprised 9.4% of the empirical papers. This compares with various areas of management...

This working paper reviews 19 technology and innovation management articles from the past ten years (2003-2012) based on the Thongpapanl's overall adjusted ranking list of Top 50 innovation management journals (between years 2006 and 2010) with focus on alternative methods of protecting...

The efficient market hypothesis (EMH) and behavioral finance (BF) form the blame-hope axis of the ongoing soul-searching exercise in economics, which frequently refers to the ‘Chicago School' and the ideological division between ‘freshwater' and ‘saltwater' universities. Citation analysis...

Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics....