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This documents describes the data collection and use for the computation of rankings within RePEc (Research Papers in Economics). This encompasses the determination of impact factors for journals and working paper series, as well as the ranking of authors, institutions and geographic regions. The various ranking methods are also compared, using a snapshot of the data.
Keywords:RePEc; rankings; impact factors; working papers; h-index; citations. (search for similar items in EconPapers) JEL-codes:A14A10A11A13Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers) New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu, nep-hpe, nep-knm and nep-sog Date: 2007-09, Revised 2009-03 Note: This paper benefited from discussions and electronic correspondence with Kit Baum, Oded Galor, Bill Goffe, N. Gregory Mankiw, and Ekkehard Schlicht. The data used in these rankings would not exist without the major contributions of Jose Manuel Barrueco Cruz, Kit Baum, Sune Karlsson, Thomas Krichel, Ivan Kurmanov and all the other volunteers working on RePEc. This version updates the previous one with several criteria that have been added since the last version, as well as updates for the tables. View list of referencesView citations in EconPapers