We construct a meta–ranking of 315 economics journals based on 38 different individual rankings. Our ranking … rankings in the literature. Furthermore, we account for the different scaling of all bibliometric measures by standardizing … each ranking score. Finally, we aggregate all rankings using a double–weighting algorithm which corrects for incomplete …

considerations can be used in evaluations of university departments in order to render the resulting rankings insensitive to the age …

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 is considered. Even quantity rankings are not objective; two citation rankings, based on different samples …

It is well-known that the distribution of citations to articles in a journal is skewed. We ask whether journal rankings … papers for 100 economics journals and recalculate the impact factor. Afterwards we compare the resulting rankings with the … original ones from 2012. Our results show that the rankings are relatively robust. This holds both for the 2-year and the 5 …

Peer reviews and rankings today are the backbone of research governance, but recently came under scrutiny. They take … offers an alternative to the present regime of academic rankings. …

Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania …