Saturday, August 09, 2008

Wu-Index

A new method for ranking scientists called the Wu-Index (where an author has written w papers that have been cited at least 10w times) applied to economists is linked below. Andrei Schliefer scores highest with a Wu-Index of 14. So all you've got to do is write 15 papers that get cited 150 times each and you too can be the world's most high-impact economist! The more traditional way of ranking economist called the h-index (where an author has written h papers that have been cited h-times) is linked below that

http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.person.windex.html

http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.person.hindex.html

1 comment:

Kevin Denny said...

Clearly inferior to my own Woo-Index : the number of universities that have attempted to recruit you in the last 5 years