statistical analysis of the interconnection between Handelsblatt (HB), Research Papers in Economics (RePEc, here RP) and Google … quality of published research that enters decisions on jobs, salary, tenure, etc. Academic ranking scales in economics and … ranking systems are competing, allow for different disciplinary gravity and sometimes give orthogonal results. Here a …

. Specifically, the focus is on RePEc's main author ranking, which aggregates 36 different rankings based on a range of criteria. The …This paper provides an overview of RePEc a digital platform for the dissemination of research in economics … paper first describes the logic behind the ranking and then presents some key descriptive statistics on the top 5% of …

This article describes the data collection and use of data for the computation of rankings within RePEc (Research … the ranking of authors, institutions, and geographic regions. The various ranking methods are also compared, using a …

iterative ranking methodologies from economics, as well as some new methodologies, we demonstrate the spectacular rise of these …

We construct a meta-ranking of 315 economics journals based on 38 different individual rankings. Our ranking … incorporates both bibliometric measures from three different databases (Web of Knowledge, RePEc and Google Scholar) and previous … each ranking score. Finally, we aggregate all rankings using a double-weighting algorithm which corrects for incomplete …

application of citation counts to evaluate economic literature. Finally, the paper provides an opportunity for economists to …