How Does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics

By Glenn Ellison. Social Science Research Network, 2013

145 citations recorded by the source corpus.

A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of Hirsch’s index that emphasize smaller numbers of highly-cited papers perform better than Hirsch’s original index and have substantial power to explain which economists are tenured at which departments. Adjustment factors for differences across fields and years of experience are presented.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research

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Citations in the corpus

• How To Count Citations If You Must (2016, methodology): “5These figures pertain to individuals who are classified by Ellison (2013) as being in a unique field, in this case either IO or macroeconomics.”
• Citations in Economics: Measurement, Uses and Impacts (2018, methodology): “Numerous variations on both of these statistics have been offered, including by Ellison (2013) for a sample of economists.”