Evaluating Economic Research in a Contested

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

Frederic S. Lee is a Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has published extensively on heterodox microeconomics, on the history of heterodox economics. He was the editor of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter and the executive director of ICAPE. He is currently the editor of the American Journal of Economics and Sociology. He has published in numerous heterodox journals including the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Review of Radical Political Economics, Review of Social Economy, and the Journal of Economic Issues.

Editors' Introduction
Ranking Economics Departments in a Contested Discipline: A Bibliometric Approach to Quality Equality Between Theoretically Distinct Sub-disciplines
Citation Metrics: Serious Drawbacks, Perverse Incentives and Strategic Options for Heterodox Economics
Research Quality Rankings of Heterodox Economic Journals in a Contested Discipline
Increasing the Impact of Heterodox Work: Insights from RoSE
The Diffusion of Heterodox Economics
Pluralism at Risk? Heterodox Economic Approaches and the Evaluation of Economic Research in Italy
Research Evaluation Down Under: An Outsider's View from the Inside of the Australian Approach
Economic Performance and Institutional Economics in Poland after 1989
From Heterodoxy to Orthodoxy and Vice Versa: Economics and Social Sciences in the Division of Academic Work
The Economists of Tomorrow: The Case for Assertive Pluralism in Economics Education
Heterodox Economics and the Scientist's Role in Society
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Evaluating Economic Research in a Contested Discipline Ranking, Pluralism, and the Future of Heterodox Economics

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