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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 … from 776 top economists we identify four archetypoids. These types represent solid, low, top and diligent performer. Each …
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A menagerie of rankings : a look in RePEc's factory
Linnemer, Laurent - 2023
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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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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Awards in economics : towards a new field of inquiry
Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2009
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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The benefits of being economics professor A (and not Z)
Praag, Mirjam van (contributor);  … - 2007
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Ranking economists on the basis of many indicators : an alternative approach using RePEc data
Seiler, Christian; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2011
database in economic sciences containing 33 different indicators for more than 30,000 economists. Based on this bibliographic … overall ranking of economists based on RePEc data. -- RePEc ; ranking aggregation ; principal components analysis ; economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009489290
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Recent trends in co-authorship in economics : evidence from RePEc
Rath, Katharina; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2015
This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal articles we show that the average number of authors per article has increased over the last years. This process is likely to be continued in the future. In a regression analysis...
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Archetypal scientists
Seiler, Christian; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2012
,083 economists obtained from the RePEc database and identify six archetypes. These are mainly characterized by ratios of published …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009682823
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What's worth knowing? : economists' opinions about economics
Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter - 2021
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 … economics as a field does not appreciate and work on what economists collectively prefer. …
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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 … the losers may react in a harmful way. The paper suggests several ways for improvement. -- Academia ; economists …
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