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The Measurement of Intellectual Influence: the Views of a Sceptic

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Roberto Serrano () (Department of Economics, Brown University)

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In an extremely interesting paper, Palacios-Huerta and Volij (2004) [PV] introduce the axiomatic method to the problem of how to rank academic journals on the basis of their mutual citations. They characterize the invariant method as the only one satisfying a list of five appealing properties. In this note, I show an impossibility result, by identifying a sixth property that is violated by the invariant method. Further, I question the appeal of the PV axioms, when applied over larger domains of problems that take into account making distinctions among types of citations.

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Paper provided by Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science in its series Economics Working Papers with number 0040.

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Keywords: Journal Rankings Invariant Method Impossibility Result Axiomatic Method

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  1. Roberto Serrano, 2004. "The Measurement of Intellectual Influence: the Views of a Sceptic," Economics Working Papers 0040, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Ignacio Palacios-Huerta & Oscar Volij, 2004. "The Measurement of Intellectual Influence," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 72(3), pages 963-977, 05. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Roberto Serrano, 2004. "The Measurement of Intellectual Influence: the Views of a Sceptic," Economics Bulletin, Economics Bulletin, vol. 1(3), pages 1-6. [Downloadable!]
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