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Classifying top economists using archetypoid analysis

Gralka, Sabine Marlene; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2021

Updating the study by Seiler and Wohlrabe (2013) we use archetypoid analysis to classify top economists. The approach allows us to identify typical characteristics of extreme (archetypal) values in a multivariate data set. In contrast to its predecessor, the archetypal analysis, archetypoids...

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Using archetypoid analysis to classify institutions and faculties of economics

Wohlrabe, Klaus; Gralka, Sabine Marlene - 2019

classification changes when for four and five archetypoids are considered. …

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An empirically-based taxonomy of Dutch manufacturing : innovation policy implications

Raymond, Wladimir; Mohnen, Pierre A.; Palm, Franz C.; … - 2004

classification of Dutch manufacturing that can be used for policy purposes. We use a twolimit tobit model with sample selection … innovative sales. The model is estimated for eleven industries based on the Dutch Standard Industrial Classification (SBI 1993 …

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Confidence intervals for recursive journal impact factors

König, Johannes; Stern, David I.; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2022

We compute confidence intervals for recursive impact factors, that take into account that some citations are more prestigious than others, as well as for the associated ranks of journals, applying the methods to the population of economics journals. The Quarterly Journal of Economics is clearly...

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Normalization of citation impact in economics

Bornmann, Lutz; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2017

impact is the standard method in bibliometrics. Since citation rates for journal papers differ substantially across … publication years and Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification codes, citation rates should be normalized for the … are the most important indicators in bibliometrics: (1) the mean normalized citation score (MNCS) compares the citation …

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Efficiency of universities and research-focused institutions worldwide : an empirical DEA investigation ased on institutional publication numbers and estimated academic staff numbe...

Bornmann, Lutz; Gralka, Sabine Marlene; Moya Anegón, … - 2020

One of the core indicators in the field of scientometrics is the number of papers published by a unit within a given period. However, such indicators can only be assessed properly by considering the unit’s available resources. When evaluating the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the...

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Do rankings reflect research quality?

Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Rost, Katja (contributor) - 2008

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, which should be the essence of...

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Borders and distance in knowledge spillovers : dying over time or dying with age? ; evidence from patent citations

Li, Yao - 2009

This paper uses a gravity framework to investigate the effects of distance as well as subnational and national borders in knowledge spillovers. Drawing on the NBER Patent Citations Database, we examine patent citations data at metropolitan level within the U.S. and the 38 largest patent-cited...

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Economists in the PITS?

Frey, Bruno S. - 2009

Academic economists today are caught in a "Publication Impossibility Theorem Systemʺ or PITS. To further their careers, they are required to publish in A-journals, but this is impossible for the vast majority because there are few slots open in such journals. Such academic competition is held...

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Research governance in academia : are there alternatives to academic rankings?

Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - 2009

Peer reviews and rankings today are the backbone of research governance, but recently came under scrutiny. They take explicitly or implicitly agency theory as a theoretical basis. The emerging psychological economics opens a new perspective. As scholarly research is a mainly curiosity driven...

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