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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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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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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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Archetypal scientists
Seiler, Christian; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2012
,083 economists obtained from the RePEc database and identify six archetypes. These are mainly characterized by ratios of published …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290136
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A Meta-Analysis of the Literature on Climate Change and Migration
Beine, Michel A. R. - 2019
Recent surveys of the literature on climate change and migration emphasize the important diversity of outcomes and approaches of the empirical studies. In this paper, we conduct a meta-analysis in order to investigate the role of the methodological choices of these empirical studies in finding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892169
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Citations and Incentives in Academic Contests
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2019
There are several empirical studies of ex post analysis of citations in academia. There is no ex ante analysis of citations. I consider a game-theoretic model of a contest between scholars on the basis of two widely-used measures of citations (i.e., the h-index and total citation count) and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860576
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The Impact of the German 'DEAL' on Competition in the Academic Publishing Market
Haucap, Justus; Moshgbar, Nima; Schmal, Wolfgang Benedikt - 2021
The German DEAL agreements between German universities and research institutions on the one side and Springer Nature and Wiley on the other side facilitate easy open access publishing for researchers located in Germany. We use a dataset of all publications in chemistry from 2016 to 2020 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013236277
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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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