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Demange, Gabrielle - 2014

Ranking methods are fundamental tools in many areas. Popular methods aggregate the statements of 'experts' in different … ways. As such, there are various reasonable ranking methods, each one of them more or less adapted to the environment under … applications. The method is illustrated for ranking economic journals. …

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How robust are journal rankings based on the impact factor? : evidence from the economic sciences

Seiler, Christian; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2014

It is well-known that the distribution of citations to articles in a journal is skewed. We ask whether journal rankings based on the impact factor are robust with respect to this fact. We exclude the most cited paper, the top 5 and 10 cited papers for 100 economics journals and recalculate the...

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

Seiler, Christian; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2011

rankings can be biased due to the employed ranking methodology. In order to select key in-dicators describing and assessing … overall ranking of economists based on RePEc data. -- RePEc ; ranking aggregation ; principal components analysis ; economics …

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The limits of trust in economic transactions : investigations of perfect reputation systems

Bolton, Gary E. (contributor); Ockenfels, Axel (contributor) - 2008

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Distribution and use of knowledge under the laws of the web

Falkinger, Josef (contributor) - 2007

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Opinion dynamics via search engines (and other algorithmic gatekeepers)

Germano, Fabrizio; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2017 - First Version: December 2016

Ranking algorithms are the information gatekeepers of the Internet era. We develop a stylized framework to study the … effects of ranking algorithms on opinion dynamics. We consider rankings that depend on popularity and on personalization. We …, depending on whether individuals have common or private value preferences. We also find that ranking algorithms can contribute …

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Omnimetrics and awards

Frey, Bruno S. - 2017

The digital revolution has led to a quantification of ever more areas of human life and society. At the same time, there is an explosion of the number of awards, which by their very nature are based on non-quantified performance. Will quantification take over completely, leading to...

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Normalization of citation impact in economics

Bornmann, Lutz; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2017

This study is intended to facilitate fair research evaluations in economics. Field- and timenormalization of citation impact is the standard method in bibliometrics. Since citation rates for journal papers differ substantially across publication years and Journal of Economic Literature (JEL)...

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Publication performance vs. influence : on the questionable value of quality weighted publication rankings

Haucap, Justus; Thomas, Tobias; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2017

-based measures. We analyze data from the Scopus database as well as from the prestigious German-based Handelsblatt ranking for 100 …

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Heterogeneous peer effects and rank concerns : theory and evidence

Tincani, Michela M. - 2017

Using a theoretical model where students care about achievement rank, I study effort choices in the classroom and show that rank concerns generate peer effects. The model's key empirical prediction is that the effect on own achievement of increasing the dispersion in peer cost of effort is...

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