Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries …, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure … research quality is considered. Even quantity rankings are not objective; two citation rankings, based on different samples …

spread of existing and new economic research. Furthermore the calculation of rankings for authors and academic institutions … aggregated rankings maybe biased. Furthermore we offer anew ranking approach, based on standardization of scores, which allows …