Ranking Methods
Formal definitions of the scholar-ranking rules used throughout this site.
| Index | Definition |
|---|---|
| Existing indices | |
| h-index | The largest h such that h papers have at least h citations each |
| i10-index | The number of papers with at least 10 citations |
| Euclidean index | \(\sqrt{\sum_i x_i^2}\), where $x_i$ is the number of citations of paper $i$ |
| Total Citation | Total number of citations |
| Total Publication | Total number of publications |
| Bean-Counting (BC) family | |
| ABC Absolute Bean Counting | \( \#\{\text{Top Five}\} \) |
| ABC_A Absolute Bean Counting | \( \#\{\text{Top Five or Top A}\} \) |
| DBC Discounted Bean Counting | \(\#\{\text{Top Five}\} + 0.5 \times \#\{\text{outside Top Five}\}\) |
| CRBC Citation-Restricted Bean Counting | \(\#\{\text{Top Five and with at least 10 citations}\}\) |
| CEBC Citation-Expanded Bean Counting | \(\#\{\text{Top Five or with at least 10 citations}\}\) |
| TCEBC Tiered Citation-Expanded Bean Counting | $\#\{\text{Top Five}\} + 0.5 \times \#\{\text{Top A}\} + 0.5 \times \#\{\text{non-Top-Five/Top-A and with at least 10 citations}\}$ |
| CES family | |
| ACES Asymmetric CES | \(\left(\sum_{\text{Top Five}} \sqrt{x_i}\right)^2 + 0.5 \times \sqrt{\sum_{\text{non-Top-Five}} x_i^2}\), where $x_i$ is the number of citations of paper $i$ |
| ABC + CES | \(\#\{\text{Top Five}\} + \sqrt{\sum_{\text{non-Top-Five}} x_i^2}\), where $x_i$ is the number of citations of paper $i$ |
| ABC × CES | \(\left(1+\#\{\text{Top Five}\}\right) \times \left(1+\sqrt{\sum_{\text{non-Top-Five}} x_i^2}\right)\), where $x_i$ is the number of citations of paper $i$ |
Journal Lists
The ranking methods use journal lists based on Heckman and Moktan (2020).
Top Five
- American Economic Review
- Econometrica
- Journal of Political Economy
- Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Review of Economic Studies
Top A
Non-Top-Five general-interest journals:
- Review of Economics and Statistics
- Economic Journal
- Journal of the European Economic Association
- European Economic Review
- International Economic Review
Leading field journals:
- Journal of Development Economics
- Journal of Econometrics
- Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
- Journal of Economic Growth
- Journal of Financial Economics
- Journal of Finance
- Journal of Economic Theory
- Games and Economic Behavior
- Journal of Health Economics
- Health Economics
- RAND Journal of Economics
- Journal of Industrial Economics
- Journal of Labor Economics
- Journal of Human Resources
- Journal of Monetary Economics
- Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
- Journal of Public Economics
- Public Choice
Field Classification
Paper-level field classification and scholar-level primary-field assignment.
We classify publications into 13 economics fields, plus an “Other” category, using a Large Language Model based on each paper's title, keywords, and abstract. Each paper is assigned to the field with the highest predicted probability.
A scholar's primary field is the field with the largest share of their publications. Scholars whose primary field accounts for at least 50% of their publications are treated as single-field scholars, and their primary field is displayed. Scholars whose primary field accounts for less than 50% are labeled as multi-field.