A research-based ranking of public policy schools

Elliott Ash and Miguel Urquiola

Scientometrics, 2020, vol. 125, issue 1, No 21, 499-531

Abstract: Abstract This paper presents rankings of U.S. public policy schools based on their research publication output. In 2016 we collected the names of about 5000 faculty members at 44 such schools. We use bibliographic databases to gather measures of the quality and quantity of these individuals’ academic publications. These measures include the number of articles and books written, the quality of the journals the articles have appeared in, and the number of citations all have garnered. We aggregate these data to the school level to produce a set of rankings. The results differ significantly from existing rankings, and in addition display substantial across-field variation.

Keywords: University rankings; Research productivity; Quantity vs quality in research; Public policy schools (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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