Ranking economists on the basis of many indicators: An alternative approach using RePEc data

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 389-402

  Seiler, Christian ^a   Wohlrabe, Klaus ^a  

^a IFO INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Economics profession; Principal components analysis; Ranking aggregation; RePEc

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860537930     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2012.01.007     Document Type: Article

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