Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/73773
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
ifo Working Paper No. 96
Publisher: 
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Munich
Abstract: 
In socio-economic sciences the RePEc network (Research Papers in Economics) has become an essential source both for the spread of existing and new economic research. Furthermore the calculation of rankings for authors and academic institutions play a central role. We provide some cautionary remarks on the ranking methodology employed by RePEc and show how the aggregated rankings maybe biased. Furthermore we offer anew ranking approach, based on standardization of scores, which allows interpersonal comparisons and is less sensitive to outliers. We illustrate our new approach with a large data set provided by RePEc based on 24,500 authors.
Subjects: 
Rankings
RePEc
ranking aggregation
standardization
JEL: 
A12
A14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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