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On the Marketization of the Academic Review Process

de Mesnard, Louis - 2014

Pressure to change the academic reviewing system is growing. We discuss two groups of proposals for introducing market mechanisms. First, Prüfer and Zetland (2009), based on Havrilesky (1975), create an auction system: manuscripts are submitted and auctioned to editors in "academic dollars",...

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Political Stability and Economic Development in the New Nation of South Sudan

Mohamed, Issam A.W; Akongdit, Addis - 2012

The newly born, one year old State of Southern Sudan faces multiple challenges, economic, administrative, ethnic and most of all, civil conflicts with its previous mother country, Sudan. Building a state is an arduous mission and building a nation comprised of many ethnicities is the most...

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Academic Rankings with RePEc

Zimmermann, Christian - 2012

This document describes the data collection and use of data for the computation of rankings within RePEc (Research …

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Comparing the Early Research Performance of PhD Graduates in Labor Economics in Europe and the USA

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimaraes, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

This paper analyzes the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics, addressing the following … relevant is the quality of the training received (i.e. ranking of institution and supervisor) and the research environment in … received their degree in the years 2000 to 2005 in Europe or the USA. Research productivity is evaluated alternatively as the …

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Comparing the Early Research Performance of PhD Graduates in Labor Economics in Europe and the USA

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

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Publishing Performance of Spanish Academics: 1970-2004: Institutions, Researchers et al.

Rodriguez, David - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2006

This work complements some of the results appearing in the article ?Publishing Performance in Economics: Spanish Rankings? by Dolado et al. . Specifically we focus on the robustness of the results regardless of the time span considered, the effect of the choice of a particular database on the...

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Academic Rankings with RePEc

Zimmermann, Christian - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2007

This documents describes the data collection and use for the computation of rankings within RePEc (Research Papers in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005800290

Ranking economic history journals: a citation-based impact-adjusted analysis.

Vaio, Gianfranco Di; Weisdorf, Jacob Louis - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 4 (2010) 1, pp. 1-17

This study ranks—for the first time—12 international academic journals that have economic history as their main topic. The ranking is based on data collected for the year 2007. Journals are ranked using standard citation analysis where we adjust for age, size and self-citation of journals....

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The problem with economics: naturalism, critique and performativity

Muniesa, Fabian - Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), MINES ParisTech - 2010

Reviews debates on the performativity of economics from the vantage point of a general anthropology of modern economic reason.

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Citation Success: Evidence from Economic History Journal Publications

Waldenström, Daniel; Di Vaio, Gianfranco; Weisdorf, Jacob - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

-Saxon countries are all more likely to get cited than others whereas affiliation at a top-ranked university has no seeming effect. A … finding is that active diffusion of one’s research, e.g., academic presentations (at conferences, workshops or seminars) or …

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