Das Handelsblatt Ökonomen-Ranking 2007
Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 9 (3):
254-266 (2008)Zugriff beschränkt.Abstract
Abstract: The Handelsblatt ¨ Okonomen-Ranking is as yet the best privately provided
ranking of individual economists and entire economics departments in
Austria, Germany and Switzerland. It is, however, not suited for management
purposes because the employed evaluation method gives rise to dysfunctional
incentives. The research productivities derived by the Handelsblatt method,
moreover, turn out to be biased. The Committee for Research Monitoring of the
Verein f¨ur Socialpolitik makes use of an established bibliometric method that is
not afflicted with these shortcomings. We show how selected results are altered
when instead of the standard method various aspects of the Handelsblatt
method are applied.