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External influence as an indicator of scholarly importance
Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana; Schaffner, … - 2013
The external influence of scholarly activity has to date been measured primarily in terms of publications and citations, metrics that also dominate the promotion and grant processes. Yet the array of scholarly activities visible to the outside world are far more extensive and recently developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792185
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How should research performance be measured? : a study of Swedish economists
Henrekson, Magnus; Waldenström, Daniel - 2010 - [Revised december 2010]
Billions of dollars are allocated every year to university research. Increased specialisation and international integration of research and researchers has sharply raised the need for comparisons of performance across fields, institutions and individual researchers. However, there is still no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793605
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External influence as an indicator of scholarly importance
Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana; Schaffner, … - 2013
The external influence of scholarly activity has to date been measured primarily in terms of publications and citations, metrics that also dominate the promotion and grant processes. Yet the array of scholarly activities visible to the outside world are far more extensive and recently developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010193828
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How Should Research Performance Be Measured? A Study of Swedish Economists
Henrekson, Magnus; Waldenström, Daniel - 2019
The increased international exchange and competition in modern economics research has boosted the demand for objective and internationally comparable evaluations of institutions and individual researchers. There exist several plausible measures of research performance, each capturing one or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224887
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The benefits of being economics professor A (and not Z)
Praag, Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2007
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers_new, which is the convention in theeconomics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose lastname initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been afirst author more...
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A Counter-Reply to Professors Bankman and Weisbach
Sanchirico, Chris William - 2011
In “A Critical Look at the Economic Argument for Taxing Only Labor Income,” I challenge the tax substitution argument, which according to accepted wisdom fairly establishes that it is best to tax only labor earnings. A portion of Critical Look is directed at Professors Bankman and Weisbach's...
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Pay and job rank amongst academic economists in the UK : is gender relevant?
Mumford, Karen; Sechel, Cristina - 2019
academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be …
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Who are the economists Germany listens to? : the social structure of inluential German economists
Puehringer, Stephan; Beyer, Karl - 2020
Building on recent work on the political and societal impact of economics and distinct economists, respectively, this … what are considered to be "influential economists" in Germany. For the purpose of identifying the most influential … economists, we make use of the popular impact ranking of the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) entitled "The …
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Thirty-five years of peer-reviewed publishing by north American economics PhDs : quantity, quality, and beyond
Önder, Ali Sina; Yilmazkuday, Hakan - In: Open economics 3 (2020) 1, pp. 70-85
We provide a descriptive analysis of various qualities of peer-reviewed journal publications of graduates of North American economics PhD programs between 1980 and 2014. We find that the share of single-author papers in all published papers diminishes from 60% in 1980 to 50% in 1990 and then...
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Early career research production in economics : does mentoring matter?
García, Andrés; Otero, Jesús G.; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2018
We assess the role played by advisory supervision on the early stage productivity of recent PhDs in economics using a tailor-made data set based on RePEc. After allowing for the potential effects of other relevant determinants, including gender and field of specialisation, we find as expected...
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