Comments on: Polls on ranking disclosures http://blog.repec.org/2009/10/15/polls-on-ranking-disclosures/ Information about Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) Tue, 07 May 2013 15:56:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: rtol http://blog.repec.org/2009/10/15/polls-on-ranking-disclosures/#comment-366 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://blog.repec.org/?p=304#comment-366 I see I’m in the minority.

I think all data should be disclosed so that it can be used for other purposes. The IDEAS/RePEc team is too busy to do special runs, and the databases are too intricate for outsiders to programme special runs.

]]> By: macchiavelo http://blog.repec.org/2009/10/15/polls-on-ranking-disclosures/#comment-365 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:35:00 +0000 http://blog.repec.org/?p=304#comment-365 I definitely agree. I think the field rankings are much more important, for example, when students are looking for any kind of program (BA – PhD) in Economics.

]]> By: sterndavidi http://blog.repec.org/2009/10/15/polls-on-ranking-disclosures/#comment-364 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:25:34 +0000 http://blog.repec.org/?p=304#comment-364 I voted for top 50% but actually the top 20% makes sense to me. At the moment there is only the top 5% for the global and field rankings but the top 20% for countries. Therefore, already everyone in the top 20% in a country can see their national ranking. So it makes sense to me to extend this to the top 20% of the fields and global ranking. I actually think the field ranking is most interesting to extend further as at the moment in my fields (energy and environment) at least there are a lot of people in the top 5% who don’t really do much work in this field but are top general economists. Extending the listing to the top 20% might give a better idea of who are some good people in the field. Of course, it would also include me then in the list :)

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