Im September 2013 veröffentlichte das Handelsblatt das aktuelle VWL-Ranking. Der vorliegende Beitrag unterwirft die Methodik des Handelsblattes einer kurzen Kritik und vergleicht das Handelsblatt-Ranking mit den Rankings von RePEC.

În acest studiu este prezentată o nouă metodă de reprezentare în ştiinţă care combină asocierea bibliografică, ca o măsură a asemănării document-document, cu o metodă de grupare ierarhică aglomerativă. Accentul se pune în acest studiu pe reprezentarea aşa numitelor...

Im September 2013 veröffentlichte die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ein neues Ökonomenranking. Dieses berücksichtigt neben der Forschungsleistung auch noch zwei weitere Aspekte: Medienpräsenz und Politikberatung. In diesem Artikel wurde das FAZ-Ranking einer kritischen Analyse unterworfen,...

Von einem Matthäus-Effekt wird gesprochen, wenn ein Teil des gegenwärtigen Erfolgs auf vergangene Erfolge zurückzuführen ist. Auf die Wissenschaft übertragen, bedeutet dies, dass berühmte Forscher auch deshalb zitiert werden, weil sie berühmt sind. Der vorliegende Beitrag illustriert, wie...

I explore patterns in regard to community based Research and Development in the Water Supply and Sanitation sector. I set a bibliometric analysis, covering the 1998-2008 period, by means of applying a framework based on three factors: productivity, collaboration, and research topics, which are...

This paper explores the relationship between scientific publication and patenting activity. More specifically, this research examines for the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology whether researchers who both publish and patent are more productive and more highly cited than their peers who...

This paper presents a bibliometric assessment of the research papers produced in the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey from 1988 to 2009. Concentration over subjects and the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification codes are provided in addition to the time distribution of...

In this paper, a bibliometric study of the computational intelligence field is presented. Bibliometric maps showing the associations between the main concepts in the field are provided for the periods 1996–2000 and 2001–2005. Both the current structure of the field and the...

The identification of age, cohort (vintage), and period (year) effects in a panel of individuals or other units is an old problem in the social sciences, but one that has not been much studied in the context of measuring researcher productivity. In the context of a semi-parametric model of...