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Asian University Rankings in International and Development Economics: An Application of Zipf's Law
Author(s) -
Jin Jang C.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
review of international economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.513
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1467-9396
pISSN - 0965-7576
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9396.2008.00790.x
Subject(s) - zipf's law , ranking (information retrieval) , economics , rank (graph theory) , key (lock) , positive economics , neoclassical economics , mathematical economics , mathematics , computer science , statistics , computer security , combinatorics , machine learning
This paper ranks Asian universities in two related economics fields: international economics and development economics. A key finding is that new latecomers rank atop the two specialty areas of economics. The results of the university ranking also establish that Zipf's law applies to research‐based school ranks.