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terça-feira, setembro 04, 2007

“The Name Game. Notes on the Choice of Methods in Ranking Institutes”

“Two recent studies published in "Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik" are used to discuss methods to develop bibliometric analyses and rankings of economic research institutions. According to them, standardization methods using the number of staff or university graduates may have a crucial impact on results, especially when the weighting methods used are not sufficiently selective. Different methods to prepare the database also have considerable influence on the data quality and results. Rankings based on a variety of methods for weighting the quality are frequently highly correlated with each other, but they supply quite different placements for institutes.”

Peter Huber (WIFO)
Angelina Keil (WIFO)
Date: 2007-01-16
Keywords: Rankings Publication
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wfo:wpaper:y:2007:i:287&r=edu
(resumo de “paper”, disponível no sítio referenciado)

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