IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/mul/je8794/doi10.1429-33589y2010i3p409-440.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Weight for citations or weights for numerousness? Evaluating Italy's academic economists

Author

Listed:
  • Maria Cristina Marcuzzo
  • Giulia Zacchia

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to offer a contribution to the analysis of which bibliometric indicators are best suited to the functions they could be expected to perform with the ongoing reform of the Italian university system. We will compare two pictures representing Italian economists using two different indexes: the "h" index based on the idea that the quality of research is to be measured in terms of its «impact», so it counts the quantity of citations of research products corrected on the basis of the number of publications and the "EconlitNumber" that attaches importance to the numerousness of publications corrected on the basis of the weight to be attributed, by the evaluators, to products of research, on the basis of characteristics (place and publication typology). Comparing the results obtained we demonstrate that they give rise to strikingly different rankings of individuals, Universities and Faculties, and are therefore to be approached very gingerly.

Suggested Citation

  • Maria Cristina Marcuzzo & Giulia Zacchia, 2010. "Weight for citations or weights for numerousness? Evaluating Italy's academic economists," Politica economica, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 3, pages 409-440.
    • Handle: RePEc:mul:je8794:doi:10.1429/33589:y:2010:i:3:p:409-440
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.1429/33589
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1429/33589
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Zacchia, Giulia, 2016. "Segregation or homologation? Gender differences in recent Italian economic thought," MPRA Paper 72279, University Library of Munich, Germany.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:mul:je8794:doi:10.1429/33589:y:2010:i:3:p:409-440. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.rivisteweb.it/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.