matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a …

. First steps towards integrating awards into economic theory are undertaken. -- Awards ; non-monetary incentives ; economics …Awards play a large role in the economics profession, which is documented by the large variety and number of awards …. However, little scientific attention has been devoted to them. This paper documents the prevalence of awards in the economics …

data ; economics profession …

This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal …

We construct a meta-ranking of 315 economics journals based on 38 different individual rankings. Our ranking … lists. In our meta-ranking the top five journals are given by: Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy …

1970's the world of economics was a collection of islands, with the largest island having about 15% of the population. Two … decades later, in the 1990's, the world of economics was much more integrated, with the largest island covering close to half … believe that economics is an emerging small world. What is it about the network structure that makes the world small? An …

economics as a field does not appreciate and work on what economists collectively prefer. …

journal? We show empirically that the answer is yes, using 3167 articles published in five of the top journals in economics …

This study is intended to facilitate fair research evaluations in economics. Field- and timenormalization of citation … independent of research quality bias the results of citation analyses. We introduce two normalized indicators in economics, which … comparisons of entities in economics (e.g. researchers, institutions, or countries). In this study, we apply the method to 294 …