It is unclear whether the hierarchy in the economics profession is the result of the agglomeration of excellence or of … nepotism. I construct the professor-student network for laureates of and candidates for the Nobel Prize in Economics. I study …

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 …

profession and analyzes the number and type of awards received by the 1,200 leading economists included in Who's Who in Economics …Awards play a large role in the economics profession, which is documented by the large variety and number of awards …. However, little scientific attention has been devoted to them. This paper documents the prevalence of awards in the economics …

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 …

economists, starting with Duncan Foley’s interview with Wassily Leontief in 1998. Other interviews in the series include Ben …

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 … 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 …