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Updating the study by Seiler and Wohlrabe (2013) we use archetypoid analysis to classify top economists. The approach … from 776 top economists we identify four archetypoids. These types represent solid, low, top and diligent performer. Each …
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This paper provides an overview of RePEc a digital platform for the dissemination of research in economics. 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...
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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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profession and analyzes the number and type of awards received by the 1,200 leading economists included in Who's Who in Economics …
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Academic economists today are caught in a "Publication Impossibility Theorem Systemʺ or PITS. To further their careers … the losers may react in a harmful way. The paper suggests several ways for improvement. -- Academia ; economists …
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tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of Hirsch's index that emphasize smaller numbers of highly-cited papers … perform better than Hirsch's original index and have substantial power to explain which economists are tenured at which …
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academic economists, we first show that research productivity crucially depends on career age and vintage. Based on the …
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