Comments on: Ranking Authors Within Fields http://blog.repec.org/2007/11/04/ranking-authors-within-fields/ Information about Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) Wed, 29 May 2013 12:58:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ranking Institutions Within Fields « The RePEc Blog http://blog.repec.org/2007/11/04/ranking-authors-within-fields/#comment-209 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:54:01 +0000 http://repec.org/blog/?p=7#comment-209 [...] Institutions Within Fields By Christian Zimmermann In previous posts, we discussed how to categorize authors by field and then how to rank them within fields. These discussions are still open and I can still be [...]

]]> By: Important changes in RePEc rankings « The RePEc Blog http://blog.repec.org/2007/11/04/ranking-authors-within-fields/#comment-207 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:48:32 +0000 http://repec.org/blog/?p=7#comment-207 [...] all announced papers or 5 announced papers), the author is considered specialist of her field (see discussion. For institutions, each affiliated author contributes with a weight corresponding to the proportion [...]

]]> By: The RePEc blog » Blog Archive » Ranking Institutions Within Fields http://blog.repec.org/2007/11/04/ranking-authors-within-fields/#comment-122 Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:33:34 +0000 http://repec.org/blog/?p=7#comment-122 [...] previous posts, we discussed how to categorize authors by field and then how to rank them within fields. These discussions are still open and I can still be convinced to change the procedure. Today, I [...]

]]> By: Richard Tol http://blog.repec.org/2007/11/04/ranking-authors-within-fields/#comment-121 Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:30:23 +0000 http://repec.org/blog/?p=7#comment-121 Christian:

Option 1 is best. It is more transparent than the other options, and I think it is more accurate too. For instance, Arrow, Solow and Stiglitz have not contributed a great volume of work to environmental economics, but what they did carries a disproportional weight because of who they are. I would for sure count Arrow among the great environmental economists.

Richard

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