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 …

Presenting data on all full-length articles published in the three top general economics journals for one year in each … fewer papers that represent pure theory, regardless of sub-field, somewhat less empirical work based on publicly available …

-authored than articles published in leading general economics journals. However, in both economic history and general economics …-authored papers. Economics and economic history differ in the nature of collaboration, in that co-authorships in economic history are … more likely to be formed of individuals of different seniority as compared to economics generally …

gender, prestige of author's institution, article content (theory vs. empiricism), and whether the author has ties to the …

We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one's peers and others. The … reputation? Using evidence for academic economists, we find that, conditional on its impact, the quantity of output has no or …

economists on the patterns of their citations. We rely on a sample of 428 papers written by 16 well known economists who died …

Over the past decade there has been a decline in the fraction of papers in top economics journals written by economists … from the highest-ranked economics departments. This paper documents this fact and uses additional data on publications and …

phenomenon in a particularly interesting context: consumer response to the ordering of economics papers in an email announcement …

might alter patterns of coauthoring of articles in economics and their influence. Using all coauthored articles in three … major economics journals from 1970-79 and 1992-96, we find: 1) Sharp growth in the percentage of distant coauthorships … (those between authors who were not in the same metropolitan areas in the four years prior to publication), as the theory …