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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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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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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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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 … each ranking score. Finally, we aggregate all rankings using a double-weighting algorithm which corrects for incomplete … lists. In our meta-ranking the top five journals are given by: Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy …

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Performance ranks, conformity, and cooperation : evidence from a sweater factory

Ashraf, Anik - 2022

Performance ranks introduce a trade-off for workers. They have to choose between signaling high productivity or signaling social compatibility to peers. Using a long-term experiment at a sweater factory, this paper disentangles the incentives underlying performance ranks. Treated workers receive...

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Achievement rank affects performance and major choices in college

Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Zölitz, Ulf - 2021

This paper studies how a student's ordinal rank in a peer group affects performance and specialisation choices in university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank increases performance and the probability of choosing...

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Gini and optimal income taxation by rank

Simula, Laurent; Trannoy, Alain - 2020

We solve the non-linear income tax program for a rank-dependent social welfare function à la Yaari, expressing the trade-off between size and inequality using the Gini or related families of positional indices. The key idea is that when agents optimize and absent bunching, ranks in the actual...

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Who is the "journal grand master"? : a new ranking based on the Elo rating system

Lehmann, Robert; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2016

of a journal's performance. Most other rankings that are commonly applied neglect this fact. The Elo ranking approach can … period from 1999 to 2015. We show that the Elo approach produces a similar but not identical ranking compared to other …

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