RePEc Academic Rankings: Construction Issues and the Role of Russian Participants

Andrei Shumilov and E. Balatsky
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E. Balatsky: Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Journal of the New Economic Association, 2016, vol. 32, issue 4, 111-138

Abstract: Rapidly increasing interest of Russian academic community in bibliometric systems makes it more and more important for researchers to understand properly their advantages and drawbacks. In this study we explore capabilities of RePEc, popular international electronic library of research materials in economics, and issues of its rankings' construction. We also analyze positions of Russian authors, institutions, journals and working paper series in various international and regional RePEc rankings during a period since 2010. Ways of improving rankings of Russian authors and series in RePEc are reported. We then discuss major instances of manipulation of bibliometric indicators, and give suggestions on eliminating distorting influence of some of them on rankings. Our analysis shows that RePEc, which earlier covered only a small part of Russian authors, who published in foreign journals, now embraces representatives of all leading Russian research and educational institutions. Having unique functional capabilities, RePEc system is likely to become the leading integrator of information on economic research in Russia in the near future. This, in turn, would allow giving quantitative estimates of the role of the Russian economic science at the international level.

Keywords: economics in Russia; bibliometrics; RePEc; ranking economists; ranking journals; ranking research institutions; Russia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 A13 A14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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