Evaluating Economic Research in a Contested Discipline

This book challenges the view that using SSCI journal citations (especially its impact factor score) and peer review/evaluation are the best ways (in that they are the most objective ways) to evaluate economic research. <ul> <li>First extensive ranking of heterodox economics journals</li> <li>First ranking of mainstream and heterodox journals</li> <li>Ranking of mainstream and heterodox graduate programs in the US</li> <li>Impact of national research assessment exercises on heterodox economics in Italy and Australia</li> <li>Use of social network analysis to examine the diffusion of heterodox economicsCritique of the use of citation metrics and heterodox economics; Social Science Citation Index with respect to economics is deliberately biased in favour of mainstream journals</li> </ul>