Just as friendly arguments based on an ignorance of facts eventually led to the creation of the definitive Guinness Book of World Records, any argument about university rankings has seemingly been a problem without a solution. To state the obvious, alternative rankings methodologies can and do...

This paper provides new rankings for the Australian university economics departments for the periods 1988-2000, 1988-1994 and 1994-2000 using the ECONLIT database. We rank economics departments using two different journal ranking criteria - one based on citations and the other based on...

The objectives of this paper are threefold. First, we critically survey and analyse the different methodologies that have been adopted in the rankings literature. Second, using journal articles included in the ECONLIT database and on the basis of two criteria - one based on citations and the...

This paper provides new rankings for Australian university economics departments for the periods 1988-2000, 1988-1994 and 1994-2000 using the ECONLIT database. We rank economics departments using two different journal ranking criteria - one based on citations and the other based on perceptions...