The Invariant Method is Manipulable

László Á. Kóczy () and Martin Strobel
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Martin Strobel: Department of Economics, Maastricht University

No 804, Working Paper Series from Budapest Tech, Keleti Faculty of Economics

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: Written 2007-05

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