This paper takes a fresh look at citation counts and publications in top-rank journals, which the academic economics … application of citation counts to evaluate economic literature. Finally, the paper provides an opportunity for economists to …

This paper provides an overview of RePEc a digital platform for the dissemination of research in economics …. Specifically, the focus is on RePEc's main author ranking, which aggregates 36 different rankings based on a range of criteria. The … the harmonic mean, which is RePEc's preferred method. Some counterintuitive properties of this approach are highlighted …

tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of Hirsch's index that emphasize smaller numbers of highly-cited papers … perform better than Hirsch's original index and have substantial power to explain which economists are tenured at which … data ; economics profession …