measures are appropriate to use. We rank all full professors in a particular discipline, economics, in one country using seven …

from economics journals for the period 1991 to 2009, we document how online accessibility lead academic economists to draw …

We compile a ranking of the research output of all Nobel Laureates in economics using the Handelsblatt methodology and …

component { covering only 15% of the population. However, by the 1990's economics was much more integrated, with the giant …, leading us to conclude that economics is an emerging small world. A crucial stable feature of the network over this period is … themselves). The world of economics is thus a collection of inter-linked stars. We also find that a growth in the average number …

1970's the world of economics was a collection of islands. Two decades later, in the 1990's the world of economics was much … individuals on the largest island had fallen significantly. Thus we believe that economics is an emerging small world … a large number of co-authors. Thus the economics world is a set of inter-connected stars.We take the view that …

, journal scaling and article-splitting. The ranking of economics journals is presented and is compared to rankings by …