A Citation-Analysis of Economic Research Institutes

Rolf Ketzler () and Klaus Zimmermann ()
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Rolf Ketzler: GDV

No 6780, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The citation analysis of the research output of the German economic research institutes presented here is based on publications in peer-reviewed journals listed in the Social Science Citation Index for the 2000–2009 period. The novel feature of the paper is that a count data model quantifies the determinants of citation success and simulates their citation potential. Among the determinants of the number of cites the quality of the publication outlet exhibits a strong positive effect. The same effect has the number of the published pages, but journals with size limits also yield more cites. Field journals get fewer citations in comparison to general journals. Controlling for journal quality, the number of co-authors of a paper has no effect, but it is positive when co-authors are located outside the own institution. We find that the potential citations predicted by our best model lead to different rankings across the institutes than current citations indicating structural change.

Keywords: scientometrics; publication analysis; economic research institutes; rankings; citation analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 C53 I23 L31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2012-08
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Published - published in: Scientometrics , 2013, 95 (3), 1095-1112

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Journal Article: A citation-analysis of economic research institutes (2013)
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