How does the market use citation data?
Subtitle: the hirsch index in economics
By: Glenn Ellison
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16419; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16419.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Description: "A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics.  This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S.  departments.  Variants of Hirsch's index that emphasize smaller numbers of highly-cited papers perform better than Hirsch's original index and have substantial power to explain which economists are tenured at which departments.  Adjustment factors for differences across fields and years of experience are presented"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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