Ranking Economics Departments in Terms of Residual Productivity: New Zealand Economics Departments, 2000-2006

David L. Anderson and John Tressler ()

Working Papers in Economics from University of Waikato, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper considers a new approach for ranking the research productivity of academic departments. Our approach provides rankings in terms of residual research output after controlling for the key characteristics of each department’s academic staff. More specifically, we estimate residual research output rankings for all of New Zealand’s economics departments based on their publication performance over the 2000 to 2006 period. We do so after taking into account the following characteristics of each department’s academic staff: gender, experience, seniority, academic credentials, and academic rank. The paper concludes with a comparison of rankings generated by the residual research approach with those generated by traditional approaches to research rankings.

Keywords: economics departments; university rankings; research output; economics research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A19 C81 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2009-03-31
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