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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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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
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Ranking economists on the basis of many indicators: An alternative approach using RePEc data
Seiler, Christian; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2011
database in economic sciences containing 33 different indicators for more than 30,000 economists. Based on this bibliographic … overall ranking of economists based on RePEc data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280831
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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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Economists in the PITS?
Frey, Bruno S. - 2009
Academic economists today are caught in a Publication Impossibility Theorem System" or PITS. To further their careers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264595
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The benefits of being economics professor A (and not Z)
van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 2007
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276299