Who is the "Platz-Hirsch" of the German economics profession? A citation analysis

Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik

Volumn 227, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 187-208

  Ursprung, Heinrich W ^a   Zimmer, Markus ^a,b  

^a Box D 138 ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Performance valuation; Rankings; Research productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547775824     PISSN: 00214027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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