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The Handelsblatt Rankings 2.0: Research Rankings for the Economics Profession in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland

2017; Wiley; Volume: 18; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/geer.12145

1468-0475

Jan‐Egbert Sturm, Heinrich W. Ursprung,

Political Science Research and Education

Abstract The distinguishing feature of all Handelsblatt rankings published over the last ten years is that they could draw on premium quality bibliometric data. We present here the new method used by KOF and DICE to compile the 2017 Handelsblatt Rankings of university departments and individual economists. As in previous years, the rankings are based on quality weighted journal publications. We show that the benchmark results are robust to various changes in the employed method, in particular to changes in the convexity of the journal quality weighting scheme. In conclusion, we show how the collected data can be used to provide customized evaluations of entire academic careers of individual economists.