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Evaluating Economic Research in a Contested Discipline: Ranking, Pluralism, and the Future of Heterodox Economics

ISBN: 978-1-4443-3945-1
Hardcover
200 pages
January 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
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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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