proposes a new empirical approach to evaluate the implications of rankings by analyzing a rich set of data on World Cup alpine … skiing tournaments for the period of 1995-2013. Focusing on close races, we identify random successes and apply a regression … strategies after one-time successes. In sharp contrast to the growing literature on the positive effects of introducing rankings …

developed Hirsch-index and relate citation incidence to publication success, career age, and the topicality of the individual … complemented with indicators that measure publication success more directly. …

-2003. In particular, we elaborate rankings of Spanish universities using information of their publication performance …In this paper, we analyse the scientific publication patterns in Economics and Business in Spain in the period 1994 … publicaciones y su impacto (citas) y se elaboran rankings de las universidades españolas. Los principales resultados apuntan a unos …

The aim of this article is to evaluate the publication performance of economics departments and economists in Turkey in … gain an impression of long-term trends. The comparison produces several findings. First, the publication performance of …-based universities are among the top ten performers in both periods. Third, in the economist rankings, the dominance of three of these …

potential. Among the determinants of the number of cites the quality of the publication outlet exhibits a strong positive effect … citations predicted by our best model lead to different rankings across the institutes than current citations indicating …