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What's Worth Knowing? Economists' Opinions About Economics
Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter - 2021
We document economists’ opinions about what is worth knowing and ask (i) which research objectives economic research … economic researchers who publish in English. We report three main findings. First, economists’ opinions are vastly … economics as a field does not appreciate and work on what economists collectively prefer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219066
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Superstar Economists : Coauthorship Networks and Research Output
Hsieh, Chih-Sheng - 2019
possibly overlapping projects. We bring our model to the data by analyzing the coauthorship network of economists registered in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892043
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216255
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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 … from 776 top economists we identify four archetypoids. These types represent solid, low, top and diligent performer. Each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217550
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Nobel Students Beget Nobel Professors
Tol, Richard S.J - 2022
It is unclear whether the hierarchy in the economics profession is the result of the agglomeration of excellence or of nepotism. I construct the professor-student network for laureates of and candidates for the Nobel Prize in Economics. I study the effect of proximity to previous Nobelists on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079650
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Life cycle and cohort productivity in economic research: the case of Germany
Rauber, Michael; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2007
We examine the research productivity of German academic economists over their life cycles. It turns out that the career … life-cycles of younger German economists are hump-shaped and closely resemble the life cycles identified for U ….S. economists, whereas the life-cycles of older German economists are much flatter. Finally, we find that not only productivity, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264205
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Lionel Robbins: a methodological reappraisal
Resende, Marcelo; Zeidan, Rodrigo M. - 2007
Lionel Robbins contributions are often discussed in terms of two main aspects. First, the delineation of the scope of economics in terms of decision making conditional on scarcity. Second, a more methodological concern with respect to scientific neutrality and the possibility of meaningful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264265
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Do rankings reflect research quality?
Frey, Bruno S.; Rost, Katja - 2008
Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure research quality, which should be the essence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264471
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Evaluation of researchers : a life cycle analysis of German academic economists
Rauber, Michael; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2006
academic economists, we first show that research productivity crucially depends on career age and vintage. Based on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276886
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How does the market use citation data? The Hirsch Index in Economics
Ellison, Glenn - 2010
tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of Hirsch's index that emphasize smaller numbers of highly-cited papers … perform better than Hirsch's original index and have substantial power to explain which economists are tenured at which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274893