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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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impact is the standard method in bibliometrics. Since citation rates for journal papers differ substantially across … are the most important indicators in bibliometrics: (1) the mean normalized citation score (MNCS) compares the citation …
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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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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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-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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. Specifically, the focus is on RePEc's main author ranking, which aggregates 36 different rankings based on a range of criteria. The … paper first describes the logic behind the ranking and then presents some key descriptive statistics on the top 5% of … authors. Notably, the ranking is dominated by English-speaking authors, particularly those affiliated with institutions in the …
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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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database in economic sciences containing 33 different indicators for more than 30,000 economists. Based on this bibliographic … 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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