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A frequent misuse of significance tests
Mayer, Thomas - 2001
Economists sometimes interpret the failure of a significance test to disconfirm a hypothesis as evidence that this hypothesis is valid. Six examples of this are cited from recent journals. But this is a misinterpretation of what significance tests show. While in general it is correct that every...
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Taking the temperature : a meta-ranking of economics journals
Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2016
We construct a meta-ranking of 315 economics journals based on 38 different individual rankings. Our ranking incorporates both bibliometric measures from three different databases (Web of Knowledge, RePEc and Google Scholar) and previous rankings in the literature. Furthermore, we account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418008
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Academic publication uncertainty and publishing behavior : a game-theoretic perspective
Faria, João Ricardo; Goel, Rajeev K. - 2016
citations and publications. However, it is not clear whether the quality of published research is enhanced. Thus, changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011560859
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Alphabetized co-authorship in economics reconsidered
Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2021
, we find no statistically significant relationship between alphabetized co-authorship and citations in economics using six …
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The influence of Covid-19 on publications in economics : bibliometric evidence from five working paper series
Bürgi, Constantin; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2022
citations relative to non-Covid papers. …
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What is the benefit from publishing a working paper in a journal in terms of citations? : evidence from economics
Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bürgi, Constantin - 2021
citations. Specifically, we address the question: To what extent does the stamp of approval obtained by publishing in a peer …-reviewed journal lead to more subsequent citations for papers that are already available in working paper series? Our data set … the publication in a peer reviewed journal results in around twice the number of yearly citations relative to working …
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Do working papers increase journal citations? : evidence from the top 5 journals in economics
Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bürgi, Constantin - 2020
Does it pay off in terms of citations to issue an article as a working paper before it is published in a refereed … between 2000 and 2010. The effect is an around 25% higher number of citations on average across the investigated journals. …
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Title characteristics and citations in economics
Gnewuch, Matthias; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2016
We investigate the relationship between article title characteristics and citations in economics using a large data set …
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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
number of citations, the h-index, the citations of the most cited paper as well as the hardly honorable Pi …
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