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

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Evaluating Economic Research in a Contested Discipline : Ranking, Pluralism, and the Future of Heterodox Economics by Lee, Frederic S.; Elsner, Wolfram, 9781444339451
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  • ISBN: 9781444339451 | 1444339451
  • Cover: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1/25/2011

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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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