Classifying top economists using archetypoid analysis

Sabine Gralka, Klaus Wohlrabe

Updating the study by Seiler and Wohlrabe (2013) we use archetypoid analysis to classify top economists. The approach allows us to identify typical characteristics of extreme (archetypal) values in a multivariate data set. In contrast to its predecessor, the archetypal analysis, archetypoids always represent actual observed units in the data. Using bibliometric data from 776 top economists we identify four archetypoids. These types represent solid, low, top and diligent performer. Each economist is assigned to one or more of these archetypoids.

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Year of publication:	July 2021
Authors:	Gralka, Sabine Marlene ; Wohlrabe, Klaus
Publisher:	Munich, Germany : CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute
Subject:	archetypoid analysis \| classification \| RePEc \| economists \| Ökonomen \| Economists \| Klassifikation \| Classification \| Wirtschaftswissenschaft \| Economics \| Bibliometrie \| Bibliometrics \| Welt \| World