Evidence for estrangement between philosophy of economics and economics

François Claveau, Jacob Hamel-Mottiez, Alexandre Truc () and Conrad Heilmann
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François Claveau: UdeS - Université de Sherbrooke = University of Sherbrooke [Sherbrooke]
Jacob Hamel-Mottiez: ULaval - Université Laval [Québec]
Alexandre Truc: GREDEG - Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion - UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UniCA - Université Côte d'Azur
Conrad Heilmann: Erasmus University Rotterdam

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Abstract: We present bibliometric evidence for increasing estrangement between the philosophy of economics and economics itself. Our analysis centers on research articles published in the Journal of Economic Methodology (JEM) between 1994 and 2021. We analyze the citations within these research articles, in particular with respect to the citations of economics. Our results are fourfold. (1) The share of economic citations in JEM articles has been decreasing. (2) The remaining economic citations in JEM articles are increasingly older relative to citation patterns within economics. (3) The profile of economic citations in JEM articles is increasingly dissimilar when compared to what is cited within economics. (4) There is decreasing diversity with regards to the share of attention towards different economic subfields in the articles published in JEM when compared to economics. We discuss interpretations of this evidence for estrangement between philosophy of economics and economics.

Keywords: B20; scientometrics; bibliometrics; digital humanities; diversity; philosophy of economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-07-14
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Published in Journal of Economic Methodology, 2025, ⟨10.1080/1350178X.2025.2529168⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/1350178X.2025.2529168

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