| By: |
Haucap, Justus;
Thomas, Tobias;
Wohlrabe, Klaus |
| Abstract: |
In broad parts of the scientific community the position in publication
performance rankings, based on journal quality ratings is seen as highly
reputational for the scientist. This contribution provides evidence that, at
least in economics, such publication performance measures can not always be
reconciled with measures for academic influence such as citation-based
measures. We analyze data from the Scopus database as well as from the
prestigious German-based Handelsblatt ranking for 100 renowned economists
(lifetime achievement). Scholarly influence is proxied by various bibliometric
indicators such as the number of citations, the h-index, the citations of the
most cited paper as well as the hardly honorable Pi-Beta-score ("Publications
Ignored, By Even The Author(s)"). We argue that publication performance
measures based on journal ratings, such as the Handelsblatt rankings, are not
good proxies for an economist's impact within the scientific community. From
this perspective the value of publication performance rankings based on
journal quality ratings is questionable. |
| Keywords: |
economics,academic reputation,academic rankings,influence,citations,Scopus,Handelsblatt ranking,academic journals |
| JEL: |
A12 A14 |
| Date: |
2017 |
| URL: |
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:dicedp:277&r=sog |