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The Invariant Method is Manipulable
László Á. Kóczy () and
Martin Strobel
No 804, Working Paper Series from Óbuda University, Keleti Faculty of Business and Management
Abstract:
We show that the invariant method (Pinski and Narin, 1976), recently axiomatised by Palacios-Huerta and Volij (2004), and used to quality-rank academic journals is subject to manipulation: a journal can boost its performance by making additional citations to other journals.
Keywords: quality ranking academic journals ; invariant method ; manipulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A1 C8 Y1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2007-05, Revised 2008-05
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