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Chasing the B: A Bibliographic Account of Economics’ Relation to its Past, 1991-2011

Giraud, Yann; Duarte, Pedro Garcia - Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application … - 2014

Some historians argue that the history of economic thought (HET) is useful and important to economists and that historians should remain in economics departments. Others believe that historians’ initiatives toward economists are doomed in advance to failure and that they should instead ally...

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Introduction: on the role of a generalist journal

Roncaglia, Alessandro - In: PSL Quarterly Review 66 (2013) 264, pp. 3-6

Economists commonly specialize in some limited parts of the general field. This is a necessity, due to the complexity of the different issues, the amount of literature available on each of them and the possibility of recourse to different analytical or statistical tools. However, specialization...

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Economics Professors' Favorite Economic Thinkers, Journals, and Blogs (along with Party and Policy Views)

Davis, William L.; Figgins, Bob G.; Hedengren, David; … - In: Econ Journal Watch 8 (2011) 2, pp. 126-146

A sample of 299 U.S. economics professors, presumably random, responded to our survey which asked favorites in the following areas: Economic thinkers (pre-twentieth century, twentieth century now deceased, living age 60 or older, living under age 60), economics journals, and economics blogs....

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How robust are journal rankings based on the impact factor? Evidence from the economic sciences

Seiler, Christian; Wohlrabe, Klaus - In: Journal of Informetrics 8 (2014) 4, pp. 904-911

It is well-known that the distribution of citations to articles in a journal is skewed. We ask whether journal rankings … papers for 100 economics journals and recalculate the impact factor. Afterwards we compare the resulting rankings with the … original ones from 2012. Our results show that the rankings are relatively robust. This holds both for the 2-year and the 5 …

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The Curtailment of Critical Commentary in Australian Economics

Dollery, Brian; Byrnes, Joel; Akimova, Galia - In: Econ Journal Watch 5 (2008) 3, pp. 349-351

Coelho, De Worken-Eley and McClure (2005) showed that, 1963 through 2004, critical commentary declined significantly in the American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Review of Economics and Statistics. Using the same method,...

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Three different tribes : how the relationship between economics and economic history has evolved in the 21st century

Cioni, Martina; Federico, Giovanni; Vasta, Michelangelo - 2019

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Are all high-skilled cohorts created equal? Unemployment, gender, and research productivity

Conley, John P.; Önder, Ali Sina; Torgler, Benno - 2012

Using life cycle publication data of 9,368 economics PhD graduates from 127 U.S. institutions, we investigate how unemployment in the U.S. economy prior to starting graduate studies and at the time of entry into the academic job market affect economics PhD graduates' research productivity. We...

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Are all high-skilled cohorts created equal? Unemployment, gender, and research productivity

Conley, John P.; Önder, Ali Sina; Togler, Benno - 2012

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Like father(s), like son(s): Does the relation between advisor and student productivity persist on group level?

Breuninger, Susanne; Pull, Kerstin; Pferdmenges, Birgit - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 26 (2012) 4, pp. 331-345

In light of the trend towards the Anglo-Saxon model of structured PhD education we analyze whether the positive relation between supervisor research productivity and young researcher productivity does persist in research groups where several PhD and postdoctoral students are supervised by a team...

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Parenthood and Productivity of Highly Skilled Labor: Evidence from the Groves of Academe

Krapf, Matthias; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Zimmermann, … - 2014

We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the survey responses of nearly 10,000 economists with their publication records as documented in their RePEc accounts, we do not find that motherhood is associated with low research...

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