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The structures of social interaction affect individual behavior and economic performance in important ways. This leads us to ask: does the architecture of social interaction exhibit particular patterns and are these patterns stable over time? We examine interaction among economists by looking at...
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This paper examines the small world hypothesis. The first part of the paper presents empirical evidence on the evolution of a particular world: the world of journal publishing economists during the period 1970-2000. We find that in the 1970's the world of economics was a collection of islands....
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Am 1. September 2018 veröffentlichte die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ihr neues Ökonomenranking. Der vorliegende Artikel macht einige Anmerkungen zur Methodik und Interpretation. Zudem werden kritische Punkte diskutiert. Abschließend wird ein Vergleich zum Ökonomenranking der RePEc-Website...
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A ranking of journals is manipulable if a particular journal's position can be improved by making additional citations to other journals. We introduce a simple ranking method that is not manipulable and is invariant to citation intensities, journal scaling and article-splitting. The ranking of...
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Im September 2013 veröffentlichte das Handelsblatt das aktuelle VWL-Ranking. Der vorliegende Beitrag unterwirft die Methodik des Handelsblattes einer kurzen Kritik und vergleicht das Handelsblatt-Ranking mit den Rankings von RePEC.
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Im September 2014 veröffentlichte die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung zum zweiten Mal nach 2013 ihr neues Ökonomenranking. Es fand eine deutliche methodische Weiterentwicklung zur Erstausgabe statt. Das Ranking berücksichtigt neben der Forschungsleistung auch noch zwei weitere Aspekte:...
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Im September 2015 veröffentlichten das Handelsblatt und die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung nahezu gleichzeitig ihre Ökonomen-Rankings. In dem Artikel werden neben einer Betrachtung von Methodik und Ansatz die drei Rankings verglichen und einer Kritik unterzogen.
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There is good reason to think that non-elite programs in economics may be producing relatively more research than in the past: Research expectations have been ramped-up at non-PhD institutions and new information technologies have changed the way academic knowledge is produced and exchanged....
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There is little work on the inner workings of journals. What factors seem to affect the ability to publish in a journal? Could simple rules (which are already used by some journals) like the immediate rejection of a significant minority of papers, help to streamline the process? At what cost?...
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This article takes stock of 99 journals dedicated to the field of entrepreneurship research and examines their evaluations and impact. It compares several journal quality assessments, the Australian ERA 2010, ABDC 2010 and UQ 2011 lists, with other international rankings and with highly regarded...
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