Das Handelsblatt Ökonomen-Ranking 2007: Eine kritische Beurteilung

Abstract

The Handelsblatt Ökonomen-Ranking is as yet the best privately provided ranking of individual economists and entire economics departments in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. It is, however, not suited for management purposes because the employed evaluation method gives rise to dysfunctional incentives. The research productivities derived by the Handelsblatt method, moreover, turn out to be biased. The Committee for Research Monitoring of the Verein für Socialpolitik makes use of an established bibliometric method that is not afflicted with these shortcomings. We show how selected results are altered when instead of the standard method various aspects of the Handelsblatt method are applied. Copyright 2008 die Autoren Journal compilation 2008, Verein für Socialpolitik und Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Research Productivity in Business Economics: An Investigation of Austrian, German and Swiss Universities

“…We weighted the journal articles by dividing the journal weight by the number of co‐authors. Hofmeister and Ursprung (2008) argue that this is the incentive‐compatible weighting scheme. Yet, we do not know whether search committees take the number of co‐authors into consideration when evaluating publication records of candidates.…”

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

“…The 2007 and 2008 Handelsblatt Rankings were thus based on clean bibliometric data. However, as pointed out by Hofmeister and Ursprung (), some methodological shortcomings remained. The Handelsblatt reacted in 2010 by revising the ranking method in close cooperation with the Committee for Research Monitoring and commissioned the TWI (and later on the KOF) to compile the rankings according to these specifications.…”

Was lesen und schätzen deutschsprachige Ökonomen heute?

“…B. Hofmeister und Ursprung 2008, Seiler und Wohlrabe 2010). Für die BWL hat das Handelsblatt‐BWL‐Ranking von Journalen nicht unbedingt dieselbe Bedeutung, da der Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaftslehre mit dem VHB‐JOURQUAL schon frühzeitig eine eigene Klassifikation von Zeitschriften in die Klassen A+ bis E vorgenommen hat (Hennig‐Thurau, Walsh und Schrader 2004, Schrader und Hennig‐Thurau 2009).…”