IZA paper provides new ranking for German Economic Research Institutes

Posted: September 24th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Newspost | Tags: , , , , | Comments Off on IZA paper provides new ranking for German Economic Research Institutes

A new IZA paper by Rolf Ketzler and Klaus F Zimmermann presents a ranking for German economic research institutes (all part of the Leibniz Association) based on their publications in SSCI-Journals from 2000-2009.

In the results of the raw data, ZEW Mannheim holds the leading position with 1,511 citations, followed by DIW Berlin (1,189 citations),  ifo Munich (753 citations), IfW Kiel (593 citations), RWI Essen (382 citations) and IWH Halle (90 citations).

The authors also found an employer and publisher bias among the cites of published articles of research staff from the German research institutes: If from the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), articles have significantly more cites than if from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) or one of the others. If published in a Springer journal, the articles receive more cites than with Blackwell, and if published with Sage, the articles receive significantly less cites than with Blackwell.

 


Handelsblatt Ranking causes uproar among German Business Economists

Posted: September 10th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Newspost | Tags: , , | Comments Off on Handelsblatt Ranking causes uproar among German Business Economists

The German Business Newspaper Handelsblatt publishes annual rankings on German Economists and Business Economists based on their publication output. This years ranking (which was published today), caused a big uproar beforehand among  researchers. As a result, over 300 Professors (about 11% of all Business Economists In Germany) opted out, which means, that they are no longer included in the ranking.  This seems quite a number but, looking at the research output of  the boycotteurs in more detail, one finds out, that most of  them are not very active in publishing research articles, in fact only about 6-7% are among  the TOP100 of the Handelsblatt Ranking.

Nevertheless this behaviour brought up a national debate about the sense and nonsense of rankings and the right parameters to choose for evaluation. Most of this debate is unfortunately available only in German, but there are also a few English blogposts out there, e.g. from the “Lumpy Economist” and “Econ Tidbits”.

 


EconStor in August 2012

Posted: September 4th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Monthly Report | Comments Off on EconStor in August 2012

In August we have been able to upload the following new working paper series, conference proceedings and e-journals:

1646 publications have been newly uploaded in EconStor and we have increased our total amount of full-text documents up to 42500 by August 31, 2012.

Download figures continue to stay at a high level. The total number of downloads in August reached 113619. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1. Hauser, Ulrike; Lorenz, Bettina: „Herstellermarke vs. Handelsmarke“ (648 downloads)

2. Hartz, Ronald: „Max Weber: “Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus”“ (444)

3. Yadav, Pradeep K.; Megginson, William L.; Chakrabarti, Rajesh: „Corporate governance in India“ (315)

4. Seibel, Hans Dieter: „Does History Matter? The Old and the New World of Microfinance in Europe and Asia“ (314)

5. Eisend, Martin: „Metaanalyse: Einführung und kritische Diskussion“ (312)

 


EconStor in July 2012

Posted: August 2nd, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Monthly Report | Comments Off on EconStor in July 2012

In July we have added the following e-journals and working paper series to EconStor:

With nearly 650 new publications in July we have increased our total amount of full-text documents up to 40,869. The total number of downloads in July climbed to 121,625. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

  1. Hauser, Ulrike; Lorenz, Bettina: „Herstellermarke vs. Handelsmarke“ (769)
  2. Hartz, Ronald: „Max Weber: “Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus”“ (471)
  3. Eisend, Martin: „Metaanalyse: Einführung und kritische Diskussion“ (468)
  4. Moldaschl, Manfred: „Was ist Reflexivität?“ (409)
  5. von der Lippe, Peter: „Deskriptive Statistik: Formeln, Aufgaben, Klausurtraining“ (308)

EconStor in June 2012: now containing more than 40000 full text documents!

Posted: July 2nd, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Monthly Report | 1 Comment »

We are pleased to announce that EconStor has passed the 40000 full text document milestone by June 22, 2012. Great thanks to all our authors, contributors and partners.

In June we have been able to upload the following new working paper series and e-journals:

1284 publications have been newly uploaded in EconStor and we have increased our total amount of full-text documents up to 40222 by June 30, 2012.

Download figures continue to stay at a high level. The total number of downloads in June reached 106378. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1. Hauser, Ulrike; Lorenz, Bettina: „Herstellermarke vs. Handelsmarke“ (1010 downloads)

2. Eisend, Martin: „Metaanalyse: Einführung und kritische Diskussion“ (446)

3. Moldaschl, Manfred: „Was ist Reflexivität?“ (414)

4. Auria, Laura; Moro, Rouslan A.: „Support Vector Machines (SVM) as a technique for solvency analysis“ (359)

5. Hartz, Ronald: „Max Weber: “Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus”“ (323)


EconStor in May 2012

Posted: June 7th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Monthly Report | Comments Off on EconStor in May 2012

This month we are happy to announce the following e-journals and working paper series which have been added to EconStor:

With almost 500 new titles in May our overall number of pdf documents raised up to 39,000. And we have counted an increasing number of pdf downloads during the last month: 118,175. EconStor’s Top 5 most downloaded papers in May were:

  1. Hauser, Ulrike; Lorenz, Bettina: „Herstellermarke vs. Handelsmarke“ (869 downloads)
  2. Pon, Bryan; Kenney, Martin: „Structuring the smartphone industry: Is the mobile internet OS platform the key?“ (635)
  3. Yadav, Pradeep K.; Megginson, William L.; Chakrabarti, Rajesh: „Corporate governance in India“ (575)
  4. Auria, Laura; Moro, Rouslan A.: „Support Vector Machines (SVM) as a technique for solvency analysis“ (564)
  5. Eisend, Martin: „Metaanalyse: Einführung und kritische Diskussion“ (385)

EconStor now integrated into OpenScout

Posted: May 31st, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Newspost | Tags: , , , | Comments Off on EconStor now integrated into OpenScout

http://www.exact-learning.com/media/openscout-logo100.jpgOur  publication  server EconStor now has added a further dissemination channel for it’s content. Besides Google Scholar, RePEc, BASE, EconBizOpen,  Economists Online and LeibnizOpen, the publications from our repository can now also be found via OpenScout. The portal is funded by the European Union and provides open content for management education and training.


New survey shows: Economists sympathize with publishing reforms and Open Access

Posted: May 16th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Newspost | Tags: , , | 1 Comment »

A recent ZBW survey among German economists shows that they sympathize with the Elsevier boycott and Open Access, but still support the established reputation and ranking systems

Right now scientists from around the world are boycotting the Elsevier publishing house. The dominant magazine publisher stands accused of monopolizing scientific content by only making it accessible to the public for astronomical subscription prices. In contrast to this, the Open Access community requests that all publicly financed research findings should be made accessible for free. In early May, the ZBW held a survey regarding the current Elsevier boycott and the subject of Open Access which found that the established system of expensive subscription magazines is indeed unpopular, but is largely upheld because of a shortage of alternatives.

Read the full press release here


EconStor in April 2012: now among the TOP 15 RePEc Archives

Posted: May 8th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Monthly Report | Comments Off on EconStor in April 2012: now among the TOP 15 RePEc Archives

We are pleased to announce that EconStor is now among the TOP 15 largest contributors to the RePEc database processing more than 13000 title data from 195 series and over 90 institutions. With more than 1.2 million records contributed from over 1400 archives in the world RePEc – Research Papers in Economics is one of the most comprehensive databases for economic research. Starting in 2006 EconStor has developed a close collaboration with RePEc. In 2010 we have established a national input service for German institutions by disseminating title data for entire series and journals into the RePEc network.

New content: In April 2012 we have been able to upload the following working and discussion paper series in EconStor:

1205 publications have been newly uploaded in EconStor and we have increased our total amount of full-text documents up to 38500. The total number of downloads in April climbed to 105700. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1.) Yadav, Pradeep K.; Megginson, William L.; Chakrabarti, Rajesh: „Corporate governance in India“ (1282 downloads)

2.) Pon, Bryan; Kenney, Martin: „Structuring the smartphone industry: Is the mobile internet OS platform the key?“ (749)

3.) Hauser, Ulrike; Lorenz, Bettina: „Herstellermarke vs. Handelsmarke“ (707)

4.) Auria, Laura; Moro, Rouslan A.: „Support Vector Machines (SVM) as a technique for solvency analysis“ (510)

5.) Gottschalk, Jan: „An Introduction into the SVAR Methodology: Identification, Interpretation and Limitations of SVAR models“ (375)


EU survey confirms: 90% support Open Access for publicly funded research publications

Posted: April 23rd, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Newspost | Tags: , , , , , | 1 Comment »

The EU recently released the results of the survey “scientific information in the digital age”. They are based on 1140 responses from Member states, coming from research funding organisations, university/research institutes, libraries, publishers, international organisations and individual researchers.

The survey focused on the three topics “scientific publications”, “research data” and “Preservation of digital scientific information”. Concerning scientific publications the answers were:

  • 84% see access problems to scientific publications in Europe
  • The main reasons are seen in high prices of journals/subscriptions (89 %) and limited library budgets (85 %)
  • 91% agree that Open Access increases the dissemination of scientific publications
  • 90% support the idea that publications resulting from publicly funded research should be avaliable in open access
  • 56% see six months as a desirable embargo period for licensed material, before it has to be available in open access
  • 86% agree on the development of an EU network of repositories