Our Friends across the Ditch: A Brief Sketch of the New Zealand Academic Economics Profession*

Millmow, Alex

doi:10.1111/j.1759-3441.2011.00103.x

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“…Although the RePEc database is still at the experimental/development stage, and only contains information on those that 19 The short-form names of the institutions are: Auckland, Auckland Institute of Technology, Canterbury, Lincoln, Massey, Otago, Victoria and Waikato. 20 For more detailed information on New Zealand's academic economics profession, see Millmow (2011) and Anderson and Tressler (2008b). 21 This point must be stressed since in some countries many economists have primary appointments in research centres and institutes and/or have economics departments in both business schools and in Arts faculties.…”

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The Impact of Journal Weighting Scheme Characteristics on Research Output Measurement in Economics: The New Zealand Case

Anderson

Tressler

2012

Review of Economics and Institutions

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Abstract: In this study we test for the ‘power’ or aggressiveness of various journal weighting schemes, especially those based on the recursive adjustment methodology first developed by Liebowitz and Palmer. Using data generated by New Zealand’s academic economists, we provide quantitative measures of the differences between recursive adjustment-based schemes and selected alternatives. We then compare the performance of economics departments under each of our journal weighting schemes and, for comparison purposes, one based on direct citation counts. We find departmental rankings based on selected recursive adjustment schemes to be relatively stable, but these rankings differed substantially from those generated by our alternative schemes. This suggests that departmental hiring practices and research strategies must be sensitive to the type of funding scheme employed. In particular, research on domestic and regional issues is likely to be unattractive to researchers if a high-powered journal weighting scheme is adopted as the “official” standard since regional journals, the natural outlet for such work, are frequently zero-weighted by such schemes.

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