Standing on the shoulder of giants: the aspect of free-riding in RePEc rankings

Meyer, Justus; Wohlrabe, Klaus

doi:10.1080/13504851.2017.1310992

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“…The RePEc ranking of individuals is, in fact, used more and more for evaluation purposes (promotion and tenure decisions) and even hiring. According to Meyer and Wohlrabe (2018): 'The relevance of an author's position in the RePEc ranking (…) plays a crucial role in job-market decisions. The number and quality of publications is a key determinant of who wins in the race for tenure and promotion.…”

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What Does It Take to Be Top Women Economists? An Analysis Using Rankings in RePEc

Zacchia

2020

Review of Political Economy

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Women are substantially under-represented in the field of economics all around the world: their progress is slow and just few women reach top positions. From the 1980s, studies document the clear barriers and implicit biases in publishing, promotion, and tenure that women face to enter and to success in the field. The paper aims at contributing to this strand of literature proposing an analysis of gender differences in economics focusing on "excellence" in the profession and in the way the discipline is conceiving and reproducing it in rankings. Using RePEc as a dataset, I test how different definitions of excellence can systematically advantage or disadvantage women's visibility in rankings of top economists and how it impacts on their probability to receive rightful recognition in academia. I found that, even among top economists, being a woman significantly reduces the probability of reaching the top of the profession by almost 15 pp. The results also underline a problematic relationship between gender and excellence that sets the bar higher for women in reaching the top of the academic career. Women economists, despite their efforts to increase their visibility, tend to receive less recognition than men in terms of promotion to full-professorship based on the criterion of excellence in which they excel. In fact, women are penalised in their academic progresses, not only for their lower productivity in terms of number of published articles than their male colleagues but also for lower returns in promotions for their high performance in terms of citations received. Challenging the assumption about gender neutral excellence is a first important step to challenge power hierarchical patriarchal structures in the economics profession and to advance the representation of women and diverse individuals in apical roles in economics.

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What Does It Take to Be Top Women Economists? An Analysis Using Rankings in RePEc

Zacchia

2020

Review of Political Economy

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“…To explore the literature, we conducted a bibliometric citation analysis of 4,488 articles on corruption in economics (Yuret 2014(Yuret , 2018Rath and Wohlrabe 2015a;Zupic and Čater 2015;Sommer and Wohlrabe 2016;Meyer and Wohlrabe 2017;Bahoo, Alon, and Paltrinieri 2019;Bahoo 2020). Our analysis contributes to the literature by answering the following questions: (1) What are the leading research streams in the literature on corruption in economics?…”

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Corruption in economics: a bibliometric analysis and research agenda

Bahoo

Alon

Floreani

2020

Applied Economics Letters

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We conducted a bibliometric analysis of the literature on corruption in the discipline of economics (4,488 articles) over the past 51 years between 1968-2019. Through this methodology, we identified seven research streams: (1) the economic framework of crime and corruption, (2) the legal institutions and corruption, (3) the effect of corruption on aspects of national economics, (4) the combating and monitoring of corruption, (5) the determinants of corruption, (6) political institutions and corruption, and ( 7) the effect of corruption on firms. In addition to these research clusters, we also identified the key journals, articles, countries, institutions, authors, data sources, measurements, theoretical frameworks, and networks dealing with this issue. Finally, we suggested 20 future research questions.

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“…RePEc data has often been used in bibliometric studies. See, inter alia,Rath and Wohlrabe (2016),Meyer and Wohlrabe (2018),Sommer and Wohlrabe (2017), Bornmann, Butz, andWohlrabe (2018) or García-Suaza, Otero, and Winkelmann (2020).2 For each ranking only the top 5% of all registered economists are shown on the RePEc website.3 Since a potential flattening can also be detected for 3 and 5 archetypoids we tested how the results change, if a different number of archetypoids is considered. The change mainly affects the performers between the top and low class most.…”

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Classifying top economists using archetypoid analysis

Gralka

Wohlrabe

2021

Applied Economics Letters

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Updating the study by Seiler and Wohlrabe (2013) we use archetypoid analysis to classify top economists. The approach allows us to identify typical characteristics of extreme (archetypal) values in a multivariate data set. In contrast to its predecessor, the archetypal analysis, archetypoids always represent actual observed units in the data. Using bibliometric data from 776 top economists we identify four archetypoids. These types represent solid, low, top and diligent performer. Each economist is assigned to one or more of these archetypoids.

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Standing on the shoulder of giants: the aspect of free-riding in RePEc rankings

Cited by 5 publications

References 14 publications

What Does It Take to Be Top Women Economists? An Analysis Using Rankings in RePEc

What Does It Take to Be Top Women Economists? An Analysis Using Rankings in RePEc

Corruption in economics: a bibliometric analysis and research agenda

Classifying top economists using archetypoid analysis

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