In this paper we explore three claims concerning the disciplinary character of economics by means of citation analysis …. The three claims under study are: (1) economics exhibits strong forms of intellectual stratification and, as a byproduct … mainstream economics is a highly self-referential intellectual project mostly inaccessible to disciplinary or paradigmatic …

We compare Covid-related working papers in economics to non-Covid-related working papers in four dimensions. Based on …

Many papers in economics that are published in peer reviewed journals are initially released in widely circulated … comprises about 28.000 working papers from four major working paper series in economics. Using panel data methods, we show that …

journal? We show empirically that the answer is yes, using 3167 articles published in five of the top journals in economics …

There is a growing literature measuring research excellence in economics. The h-index is noteworthy in combining …