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closeWrong understanding of RePEc rankings
Posted by czimmermann on 28 Aug 2019 at 23:33 GMT
The article mentions the RePEc rankings for economists as an example of a misguided scholarly ranking that uses a single criterion and does weed out self-citations. The RePEc rankings actually use 37 criteria and do eliminate self-citations. See the link provided in the article for details.
RE: Wrong understanding of RePEc rankings
John_Ioannidis replied to czimmermann on 02 Sep 2019 at 15:44 GMT
We are exactly on the same wavelength and this is exactly what we said; this is why we separated RePEc from other efforts that use only single metrics and do not exclude self-citations and therefore we mentioned RePEc first in a separate phrase. Apologies, if our writing was not totally clear.