Two recent studies published in "Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik" are used to discuss methods to develop bibliometric analyses and rankings of economic research institutions. According to them, standardisation methods using the number of staff or university graduates may have a crucial...

This paper analyses the publication activities of German and Austrian research Institutes in the time period 1989-2000. We find that publication activities in these institutes have increased over time, but that only 49 (of 518) articles were published in "Top 30" Journals. There are also two...