Economists and Societies is the first book to systematically compare the profession of
economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and to explain why economics, far from …

Bibliometrics is a research field that studies quantitatively the bibliographic material. This
study analyzes the academic research developed in Latin America in economics between …

The purpose of this study is to explore whether research productivity is correlated with
extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. Even though research productivity and motivation have …

Using an exhaustive database on academic publications in mathematics all over the world,
we study the patterns of productivity by mathematicians over the period 1984–2006. We …

This paper analyzes the determinants of success at the concours d'agrégation en sciences
économiques. This is a centralized hiring procedure through which professors of economics …

This paper presents an update of the ranking of economics journals by the invariant method,
as introduced by Palacio-Huerta and Volij, with a broader sample of journals. By comparison …

We examine the research productivity of German academic economists over their life cycles.
It turns out that the career patterns of research productivity as measured by journal …

The ranking of an academic journal is important to authors, universities, journal publishers,
and research funders. Rankings are gaining prominence as countries adopt regular …

Four rankings of economics departments worldwide in terms of graduate education are
constructed. The central methodological idea is that the value of a department is the sum of …

We investigate how increases in publication delays have affected the life cycle of
publications of recent Ph. D. graduates in economics. We construct a panel dataset of …