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Normalization of citation impact in economics

Bornmann, Lutz; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2017

impact is the standard method in bibliometrics. Since citation rates for journal papers differ substantially across … are the most important indicators in bibliometrics: (1) the mean normalized citation score (MNCS) compares the citation …

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Confidence intervals for recursive journal impact factors

König, Johannes; Stern, David I.; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2022

We compute confidence intervals for recursive impact factors, that take into account that some citations are more prestigious than others, as well as for the associated ranks of journals, applying the methods to the population of economics journals. The Quarterly Journal of Economics is clearly...

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Efficiency of universities and research-focused institutions worldwide : an empirical DEA investigation ased on institutional publication numbers and estimated academic staff numbers

Bornmann, Lutz; Gralka, Sabine Marlene; Moya Anegón, … - 2020

One of the core indicators in the field of scientometrics is the number of papers published by a unit within a given period. However, such indicators can only be assessed properly by considering the unit’s available resources. When evaluating the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the...

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Paper tiger? : Chinese science and home bias in citations

Qiu, Shumin; Steinwender, Claudia; Azoulay, Pierre - 2025

We investigate the phenomenon of home bias in scientific citations, where researchers disproportionately cite work from their own country. We develop a benchmark for expected citations based on the relative size of countries, defining home bias as deviations from this norm. Our findings reveal...

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Archetypal scientists

Seiler, Christian; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2012

We introduce archetypal analysis as a tool to describe and categorize scientists. This approach identifies typical characteristics of extreme ('archetypal') values in a multivariate data set. These positive or negative contextual attributes can be allocated to each scientists under...

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

Seiler, Christian; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2014

It is well-known that the distribution of citations to articles in a journal is skewed. We ask whether journal rankings based on the impact factor are robust with respect to this fact. We exclude the most cited paper, the top 5 and 10 cited papers for 100 economics journals and recalculate the...

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Borders and distance in knowledge spillovers : dying over time or dying with age? ; evidence from patent citations

Li, Yao - 2009

This paper uses a gravity framework to investigate the effects of distance as well as subnational and national borders in knowledge spillovers. Drawing on the NBER Patent Citations Database, we examine patent citations data at metropolitan level within the U.S. and the 38 largest patent-cited...

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The benefits of being economics professor A (and not Z)

Praag, Mirjam van (contributor); … - 2007

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Economics : an emerging small world?

Goyal, Sanjeev; Leij, Marco van der; Moraga-González, … - 2004

This paper examines the small world hypothesis. The first part of the paper presents empirical evidence on the … evolution of a particular world: the world of journal publishing economists during the period 1970-2000. We find that in the … 1970's the world of economics was a collection of islands, with the largest island having about 15% of the population. Two …

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A meta-analysis of the literature on climate change and migration

Beine, Michel; Jeusette, Lionel - 2018

Recent surveys of the literature on climate change and migration emphasize the important diversity of outcomes and approaches of the empirical studies. In this paper, we conduct a meta-analysis in order to investigate the role of the methodological choices of these empirical studies in finding...

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