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 …

This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal …

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 … the harmonic mean, which is RePEc's preferred method. Some counterintuitive properties of this approach are highlighted …

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 … data ; economics profession …

American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Using more than 120,000 multi-authored articles from the Web of Science economics … subject category, we demonstrate first that the alphabetization rate in economics has declined over the last decade. Second …, we find no statistically significant relationship between alphabetized co-authorship and citations in economics using six …

possibly overlapping projects. We bring our model to the data by analyzing the coauthorship network of economists registered in … the RePEc Author Service. We rank the authors and research institutions according to their contribution to the aggregate … institutions and compare them with the economics funding program of the National Science Foundation. Our results indicate that …

economics as a field does not appreciate and work on what economists collectively prefer. …We document economists' opinions about what is worth knowing and ask (i) which research objectives economic research … economic researchers who publish in English. We report three main findings. First, economists’ opinions are vastly …

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 … lists. In our meta-ranking the top five journals are given by: Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy …

Many papers in economics that are published in peer reviewed journals are initially released in widely circulated … comprises about 28.000 working papers from four major working paper series in economics. Using panel data methods, we show that …

journal? We show empirically that the answer is yes, using 3167 articles published in five of the top journals in economics …