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A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of...
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citations relative to non-Covid papers. …
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at publication and were later retracted face heavy citation losses, while subsequent citations become more accurate …
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report, pays off in terms of an increased number of citations. To establish a causal relationship, we use the COVID-19 global … difference-in-differences analysis for annual incoming citations of the two groups. We find that the Twitter star status added … about 1.07 extra citations following the breakout of COVID-19 per year per article, corresponding to about 70% of the …
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research quality, which should be the essence of evaluation. For that reason, an alternative ranking is developed as a quality … indicator, based on membership on academic editorial boards of professional journals. It turns out that especially the ranking … reflect research quality. Instead of propagating a ranking based on board membership as the gold standard, we suggest that …
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We construct a meta–ranking of 315 economics journals based on 38 different individual rankings. Our ranking … each ranking score. Finally, we aggregate all rankings using a double–weighting algorithm which corrects for incomplete … lists. In our meta–ranking the top five journals are given by: Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy …
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This study is intended to facilitate fair research evaluations in economics. Field- and time-normalization of citation impact is the standard method in bibliometrics. Since citation rates for journal papers differ substantially across publication years and Journal of Economic Literature (JEL)...
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-based measures. We analyze data from the Scopus database as well as from the prestigious German-based Handelsblatt ranking for 100 … number of citations, the h-index, the citations of the most cited paper as well as the hardly honorable Pi …
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Does it pay off in terms of citations to issue an article as a working paper before it is published in a refereed … between 2000 and 2010. The effect is an around 25% higher number of citations on average across the investigated journals. …
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citations. Specifically, we address the question: To what extent does the stamp of approval obtained by publishing in a peer …-reviewed journal lead to more subsequent citations for papers that are already available in working paper series? Our data set … the publication in a peer reviewed journal results in around twice the number of yearly citations relative to working …
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