A Hirsch Measure for the Quality of Research Supervision, and an Illustration with Trade Economists

Frances Ruane () and Richard Tol

No WP224, Papers from Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI)

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.

Keywords: h-index; international trade; PhD students (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2008-01
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