standards in economics around the world been reflected in research performance? How have individual countries fared? Do research … of research in economics. Our findings indicate that Europe is catching up with the US but, in terms of influential …

data from the field of economics. No scientific bias or favoritism is found (although the Journal of Political Economy …

method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics. Of 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles, the UK produced 10 …. -- Science ; evaluation ; European economics ; United Kingdom ; peer-review ; Research Excellence Framework (REF) ; citations …

There is good reason to think that non-elite programs in economics may be producing relatively more research than in … productivity in economics (and business) using data from the Web of Science (Knowledge) for a broad set of institutions both elite …

economics as a field does not appreciate and work on what economists collectively prefer. …

An important recent event in the economics field is the introduction of seven new society journals. Using standard … iterative ranking methodologies from economics, as well as some new methodologies, we demonstrate the spectacular rise of these … journals while updating journal rankings for all economics journals. We then use regression analysis based on how these …

Two of the top economics journals have institutional ties to a specific university, the Quarterly Journal of Economics …

names, we investigate the connection between the gender of economics dissertators and dissertation topics. Despite … stagnation in the share of women among economics Ph.D.s in recent years, there has been a remarkable rise in gender …-related dissertations in economics over time and in many sub-fields. Women economists are significantly more likely to write gender …