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Ranking methods are fundamental tools in many areas. Popular methods aggregate the statements of 'experts' in different … ways. As such, there are various reasonable ranking methods, each one of them more or less adapted to the environment under … applications. The method is illustrated for ranking economic journals. …
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Utilizing data for comparable BSc graduates in economics who have studied in different universities that had set the same entry standards, we compare job seekers' employment prospects when they search by themselves for jobs by submitting CVs to the same firms. The outcomes suggest that graduates...
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quality of published research that enters decisions on jobs, salary, tenure, etc. Academic ranking scales in economics and … ranking systems are competing, allow for different disciplinary gravity and sometimes give orthogonal results. Here a … Scholar (GS) systems is presented. Quantile regression allows us to successfully predict missing ranking data and to obtain a …
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We measure country welfare by an index number calculated from welfare components like GDP per capita and expected length of life. We rank countries from high to low welfare using such estimated welfare indices. In such calculation the chosen welfare components, the procedures used to normalize...
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It is well-known that the distribution of citations to articles in a journal is skewed. We ask whether journal rankings based on the impact factor are robust with respect to this fact. We exclude the most cited paper, the top 5 and 10 cited papers for 100 economics journals and recalculate the...
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