Seiler, Christian; Wohlrabe, Klaus - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2011
In socio-economic sciences the RePEc network (Research Papers in Economics) has become an essential source both for the … spread of existing and new economic research. Furthermore the calculation of rankings for authors and academic institutions … play a central role. We provide some cautionary remarks on the ranking methodology employed by RePEc and show how the …