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Efficiency of Universities and Research-Focused Institutions Worldwide : An Empirical DEA Investigation Based on Institutional Publication Numbers and Estimated Academic Staff Numb...

Bornmann, Lutz - 2020

the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem concerning the availability of internationally standardized data … the input side. We therefore introduce a new input indicator based on the authors' mentions in the institutions' papers …. We calculate efficiency scores for more than 4,800 universities and other research-focused institutions worldwide …

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Follow the Money: Does the Financial Sector Intermediate Natural Resource Windfalls?

Beck, Thorsten; Poelhekke, Steven - 2017

The need to absorb windfalls gains and manage them appropriately has been discussed extensively by academics and policy makers alike. We explore the role of the financial sector in intermediating these windfalls. Controlling for the level of financial development, inflation, GDP growth and...

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Using Archetypoid Analysis to Classify Institutions and Faculties of Economics

Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2020

We use archetypoid analysis as a new tool to categorize institutions and faculties of economics. The approach … approach therefore allows to classify institutions in a rarely used way. While the method has been recognized in the literature …, it is the first time that it is used in higher education research and as in our case for institutions and faculties of …

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Ranking economists on the basis of many indicators: An alternative approach using RePEc data

Seiler, Christian; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2011

information RePEc calculates well-known rankings for authors and academic institutions. We provide some cautionary remarks …

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Archetypal scientists

Seiler, Christian; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2012

We introduce archetypal analysis as a tool to describe and categorize scientists. This approach identifies typical characteristics of extreme ('archetypal') values in a multivariate data set. These positive or negative contextual attributes can be allocated to each scientists under...

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Forecasting GDP All Over the World Using Leading Indicators Based on Comprehensive Survey Data

Garnitz, Johanna - 2019

Comprehensive and international comparable leading indicators across countries and continents are rare. In this paper, we use a free and instantaneous available source of leading indicators, the ifo World Economic Survey (WES), to forecast growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 44 countries...

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Alphabetized Co-Authorship in Economics Reconsidered

Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2021

In this article, we revisit the analysis of Laband and Tollison (2006) who documented that articles with two authors in alphabetical order are cited much more often than non-alphabetized papers with two authors in the American Economic Review and the American Journal of Agricultural Economics....

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Classifying Top Economists Using Archetypoid Analysis

Gralka, Sabine; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2021

Updating the study by Seiler and Wohlrabe (2013) we use archetypoid analysis to classify top economists. The approach allows us to identify typical characteristics of extreme (archetypal) values in a multivariate data set. In contrast to its predecessor, the archetypal analysis, archetypoids...

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Do Working Papers Increase Journal Citations? Evidence from the Top 5 Journals in Economics

Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bürgi, Constantin - 2021

Does it pay off in terms of citations to issue an article as a working paper before it is published in a refereed journal? We show empirically that the answer is yes, using 3167 articles published in five of the top journals in economics between 2000 and 2010. The effect is an around 25% higher...

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The Influence of COVID-19 on Publications in Economics : Bibliometric Evidence from Five Working Paper Series

Bürgi, Constantin; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2022

We compare Covid-related working papers in economics to non-Covid-related working papers in four dimensions. Based on five well-known working papers series and data from the RePEc website, we find that Covid papers are mainly cover topics in macroeconomics and health, they are written by larger...

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