Evaluating Economic Research in a Contested Discipline : Ranking, Pluralism, and the Future of Heterodox Economics Hardback
by Frederic S. Lee, Wolfram Elsner
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This book challenges the view that using SSCI journal citations (especially its impact factor score) and peer review/evaluation are the best ways (in that they are the most objective ways) to evaluate economic research. * First extensive ranking of heterodox economics journals * First ranking of mainstream and heterodox journals * Ranking of mainstream and heterodox graduate programs in the US * Impact of national research assessment exercises on heterodox economics in Italy and Australia * Use of social network analysis to examine the diffusion of heterodox economicsCritique of the use of citation metrics and heterodox economics; Social Science Citation Index with respect to economics is deliberately biased in favour of mainstream journals
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:04/03/2011
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- ISBN:9781444339451
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:04/03/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781444339451