Influence in economics and aging

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A Menagerie of Rankings: A Look in Repec's Factory

“…Zacchia (2021) relies on RePEc's data to measure women's visibility in rankings of top economists and argues that women are penalised in their academic progresses. Finally, Jelnov and Weiss (2022) study the relationship between age and influence -defined as the rank in RePEc's main ranking. For that purpose they built a panel of top authors present during 100 months (from March 2012to June 2020 in the top 5% of RePEc's main ranking.…”