Academic Rankings with RePEc

Christian Zimmermann

No 2007-36, Working papers from University of Connecticut, Department of Economics

Abstract: This documents describes the data collection and use for the computation of rankings within RePEc (Research Papers in Economics). This encompasses the determination of impact factors for journals and working paper series, as well as the ranking of authors, institutions and geographic regions. The various ranking methods are also compared, using a snapshot of the data.

Keywords: RePEc; rankings; impact factors; working papers; h-index; citations. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 A11 A13 A14 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2007-09, Revised 2009-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu, nep-hpe, nep-knm and nep-sog
Note: This paper benefited from discussions and electronic correspondence with Kit Baum, Oded Galor, Bill Goffe, N. Gregory Mankiw, and Ekkehard Schlicht. The data used in these rankings would not exist without the major contributions of Jose Manuel Barrueco Cruz, Kit Baum, Sune Karlsson, Thomas Krichel, Ivan Kurmanov and all the other volunteers working on RePEc. This version updates the previous one with several criteria that have been added since the last version, as well as updates for the tables.
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