The ranking of scientific journals is important because of the signal it sends to scientists about what is considered … most vital for scientific progress. Existing ranking systems focus on measuring the influence of a scientific paper … alternative ranking based on the proclivity of journals to publish papers that build on new ideas, and we implement this ranking …

, downloaded, and cited over the next two years. Lower ranking on the list leads to fewer views and downloads, but not cites …

This paper describes the database on U.S. patents that we have developed over the past decade, with the goal of making … database about 3 million patents and 16 million citations is now available on the NBER website. We discuss key issues that …

In this paper we present and describe a large quarterly frequency, macroeconomic database. The data provided are … publicly available source of macroeconomic “big data” that is updated in real time using the FRED database. We show that …

While the Sharpe ratio is still the dominant measure for ranking risky assets, a substantial effort has been made over … ranking measure which, under a regularity condition, correctly ranks risks relative to the original investor problem for a … probability distributions. This paper also explores the theoretical foundations of risk ranking, including proving a key …