A Hirsch measure for the quality of research supervision, and an illustration with trade economists

Frances Ruane () and Richard Tol

Scientometrics, 2009, vol. 80, issue 3, No 5, 613-624

Abstract: Abstract There is a growing literature measuring research excellence in economics. The h-index is noteworthy in combining quantity and research quality in a single measure of researcher excellence, and its ability to be extended to measure the quantity and quality of the researchers in a department. We extend the use of the first successive h-index further to measure the quality of graduate education, specifically excellence in research supervision, based on publication and citation data for individual researchers ascribed to their graduate supervisors.

Date: 2009
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