Machacek, M (Machacek, Martin); Kolcunova, E (Kolcunova, Eva) Hirsch index and rankings of Czech economists POLITICKA EKONOMIE, 56 (2): 229-241 2008

[Eugene Garfield]

E-mail Address: martin.machacek at vsb.cz; eva.kolcunova at vsb.cz 

Author(s): Machacek, M (Machacek, Martin); Kolcunova, E (Kolcunova, Eva) 

Title: Hirsch index and rankings of Czech economists 

Source: POLITICKA EKONOMIE, 56 (2): 229-241 2008 

Language: Czech 

Document Type: Article 

Author Keywords: bibliometric indicators; Hirsch index; Czech economists; 
rankings; international comparison 
Abstract: The article contributes to the growing body of literature 
dealing with the bibliometric evaluation of the Czech economic research. 
In particular, this article introduces a recently invented measure of both 
the scientific output-and impact - the Hirsch index (h) - into the Czech 
academic economics. While the theoretical part of the article contains a 
discussion of the strenghts and weaknesses of the Hirsch approach, the 
empirical part presents two original top50s of the Czech economists ranked 
by their individual h's. The first of our charts comes from the Web of 
Science's General Search dataset, and the second one reflects the use of 
the Web of Science's Cited Reference Search dataset. Both datasets cover 
the 1980-2006 period. It appears that the rate of correspondence among the 
top 25 economists in each chart and the top25 of the celebrated Turnovec's 
citation-based ranking (2005) amounts to 60%. In addition, our empirical 
results reveal that the elite Czech economists attain h's being 3-10 times 
lower than the h's of the foreign academic "superstars". 

Addresses: Tech Univ Ostrava, VSB, CZ-70121 Ostrava, Czech Republic 

Reprint Address: Machacek, M, Tech Univ Ostrava, VSB, Sokolska Tr 33, CZ-
70121 Ostrava, Czech Republic.
 
E-mail Address: martin.machacek at vsb.cz; eva.kolcunova at vsb.cz 

Cited Reference Count: 15 

Times Cited: 0 

Publisher: VYSOKA SKOLA EKONOMICKA 

Publisher Address: NAM W CHURCHILLA 4, PRAGUE 13067, CZECH REPUBLIC 

ISSN: 0032-3233 

29-char Source Abbrev.: POLIT EKON 

ISO Source Abbrev.: Polit. Ekon. 

Source Item Page Count: 13 

Subject Category: Economics; Political Science 

ISI Document Delivery No.: 295TE 

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