A Hirsch Measure for the Quality of Research Supervision, and an Illustration with Trade Economists

Frances Ruane and Richard Tol

No WP224, Papers from Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI)

Abstract: There is a growing literature measuring research excellence in economics. The h-index is noteworthy in combining quantity and research quality in a single measure of researcher excellence, and its ability to be extended to measure the quantity and quality of the researchers in a department. We extend the use of the first successive h-index further to measure the quality of graduate education, specifically excellence in research supervision, based on publication and citation data for individual researchers ascribed to their graduate supervisors.

Keywords: h-index; international trade; PhD students (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2008-01
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