We introduce archetypal analysis as a tool to describe and categorize scientists. This approach identifies typical …,083 economists obtained from the RePEc database and identify six archetypes. These are mainly characterized by ratios of published …

We introduce archetypal analysis as a tool to describe and categorize scientists. This approach identifies typical … allocated to each scientists under investigation. In our application, we use a sample of seven bibliometric indicators for 29 …,083 economists obtained from the RePEc database and identify six archetypes. These are mainly characterized by ratios of published …

identified archetypes to each economist in our sample. -- archetypal analysis ; classification ; scientists ; RePEc …We introduce archetypal analysis as a tool to describe and categorize scientists. This approach identifies typical … allocated to each scientists under investigation. In our application, we use a sample of seven bibliometric indicators for 29 …

citations, the JEL classification, the number of journal pages and the length of the title. …

In socio-economic sciences the RePEc network (Research Papers in Economics) has become an essential source both for the … play a central role. We provide some cautionary remarks on the ranking methodology employed by RePEc and show how the … interpersonal comparisons and is less sensitive to outliers. We illustrate our new approach with a large data set provided by RePEc …

In socio-economic sciences the RePEc network (Research Papers in Economics) has become an essential source for the … information RePEc calculates well-known rankings for authors and academic institutions. We provide some cautionary remarks … concerning the interpretation of some provided bibliometric measures in RePEc. Moreover, we show how individual and aggregated …

incorporates both bibliometric measures from three different databases (Web of Knowledge, RePEc and Google Scholar) and previous …

citations, the JEL classification, the number of journal pages and the length of the title …

answer this question for four major working paper series in economics. Based on linked data in RePEc and a random sample we …