Economic Scholarship at Elite Liberal Arts Colleges: A Citation Analysis with Rankings
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in The Journal of Economic Education
- Vol. 34 (4), 341-359
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00220480309595228
Abstract
Although prominent economists at elite universities produce the most influential scholarship, economists at the nation's leading liberal arts colleges make significant contributions. The author measures the influence of 439 economists employed at the 50 top liberal arts colleges and ranks departments and individuals on the basis of citations. The author discovered a hierarchy with a small number of departments whose faculty produce cited scholarship, and a small number of influential economists employed at liberal arts colleges. The determinants of citations are estimated. Greater experience and more publications but not lower teaching loads are correlated with more citations.Keywords
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