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A new inequality measure that is sensitive to extreme values and asymmetries

McAleer, Michael; Ryu, Hang-keun; Slottje, Daniel Jonathan - 2017

properties such a measure (or index) should contain. The Gini index is, of course, the most popular. There is a concurrent … Gini) that poorly detect the extreme values present in the underlying empirical IDF. This paper introduces a new inequality … measure to supplement, but not to replace, the Gini that measures more accurately the inherent asymmetries and extreme values …

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Robust ranking of journal quality : an application to economics

Chang, Chia-Lin; Maasoumi, Esfandiar; McAleer, Michael - 2013

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What do experts know about forecasting journal quality? : a comparison with ISI research impact in finance

Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael - 2013

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Just how good are the top three journals in finance? : an assessment based on quantity and quality citations

Chang, Chia-ling; McAleer, Michael - 2014

The paper is concerned with ranking academic journal quality and research impact in Finance, based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI (2013) Web of Science citations database (hereafter ISI). The paper analyses the 89 leading international journals in the ISI category of "Business - Finance"...

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Ranking leading econometrics journals using citations data from ISI and RePEc

Zhang, Jialin; McAleer, Michael - 2013

The paper focuses on the robustness of rankings of academic journal quality and research impact of 10 leading econometrics journals taken from the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (ISI) Category of Economics, using citations data from ISI and the highly accessible Research Papers in Economics...

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Quality weighted citations versus total citations in the sciences and social sciences

Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael - 2014

The paper analyses academic journal quality and research impact using quality weighted citations versus total citations, based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science citations database (ISI). A new Index of Citations Quality (ICQ) is presented, based on quality weighted citations....

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Ranking economics and econometrics ISI journals by quality weighted citations

Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael - 2014

The paper analyses academic journal quality and impact using quality weighted citations that are based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science citations database (ISI). A recently developed Index of Citations Quality (ICQ), based on quality weighted citations, is used to analyse...

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Bibliometric rankings of journals based on the Thomson Reuters citations database

Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael - 2015

Virtually all rankings of journals are based on citations, including self citations by journals and individual academics. The gold standard for bibliometric rankings based on citations data is the widely-used Thomson Reuters Web of Science (2014) citations database, which publishes, among...

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Quality weighted citations versus total citations in the sciences and social sciences, with an application to finance and accounting

Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael - 2015 - Revised version: January 2015

The premise underlying the use of citations data is that higher quality journals generally have a higher number of citations. The impact of citations can be distorted in a number of ways. Journals can, and do, inflate the number of citations through self citation practices, which may be...

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Participatory value evaluation : a novel method to evaluate future urban mobility investments

Mouter, Niek; Koster, Paul; Dekker, Thijs - 2019

Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) is a widely applied economic appraisal t ool to support the planning and decision- making process for transport projects . However, in the planning literature CBA has been criticized for at least three reasons: 1) CBA focuses on traditional transport system related...

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