Die Einschätzung der Qualität von wissenschaftlicher Forschung ist sowohl für die Forschungsgemeinde als auch für die Öffentlichkeit wichtig. Trotz der Kritik ist eine quantitative Beurteilung notwendig. In der Wissenschaft spielen die Zitate und die daraus abgeleiteten Impaktfaktoren eine...

Anfang März hat das Handelsblatt die neueste Ausgabe seines Ökonomen-Rankings vorgestellt. In diesem Beitrag wird der Aspekt der Zeitschriftengewichtung im Handelsblatt-Ranking und deren Implikationen beleuchtet.

Anfang März hat das Handelsblatt die neueste Ausgabe seines Ökonomen-Rankings vorgestellt. In diesem Beitrag wird der Aspekt der Zeitschriftengewichtung im Handelsblatt-Ranking und deren Implikationen beleuchtet.

We construct a meta-ranking of 315 economics journals based on 38 different individual rankings. Our ranking incorporates both bibliometric measures from three different databases (Web of Knowledge, RePEc and Google Scholar) and previous rankings in the literature. Furthermore, we account for...

In this paper we transfer the Elo rating system, which is widely accepted in chess, sports and other disciplines, to rank scientific journals. The advantage of the Elo system is the explicit consideration of the factor time or the history of a journal's performance. Most other rankings that are...

It is well-known that the distribution of citations to articles in a journal is skewed. We ask whether journal rankings based on the impact factor are robust with respect to this fact. We exclude the most cited paper, the top 5 and 10 cited papers for 100 economics journals and recalculate the...

In broad parts of the scientific community the position in publication performance rankings, based on journal quality ratings is seen as highly reputational for the scientist. This contribution provides evidence that, at least in economics, such publication performance measures can not always be...

In broad parts of the scientific community the position in publication performance rankings, based on journal quality ratings is seen as highly reputational for the scientist. This contribution provides evidence that, at least in economics, such publication performance measures can not always be...