Open AccessCanadian Economists' Citation and Publication Records
Author(s) -
Herbert G. Grubel
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
canadian journal of higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2293-6602
pISSN - 0316-1218
DOI - 10.47678/cjhe.v11i1.182827
Subject(s) - decile , citation , sample (material) , citation index , library science , social science , demography , sociology , statistics , mathematics , computer science , chemistry , chromatography
This paper uses the Social Science Citation Index to count the number of citations received and publications made by all economists teaching at Canadian universities in 1975. It is shown that the top decile of individuals received 72 percent of all citations and 50 percent received none. The University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser Univer- sity departments of economics have the highest and second-highest average citation counts of all Canadian universities, respectively. The age-profile of citations, self-citation propensities and the journals of publication are analysed from a sub-sample of data.