Citations In Economics: Measurement, Uses, and Impacts
比较了经济学引文数据来源及其统计量，利用顶级期刊文章和千余名经济学家的引文历史，分析了引文分布、生命周期、子领域差异、合作者边际贡献，并用于排名经济学系，同时讨论了引文对薪酬和非货币奖励的影响。
I describe and compare sources of data on citations in economics and the statistics derived from them. Constructing data sets of the post-publication citation histories of articles published in the “top five” journals in the 1970s and 2000s, I examine distributions and life cycles of citations, compare citation histories of articles in different subspecialties in economics, and present evidence on the history and heterogeneity of those journals' impacts and the marginal citation productivity of additional coauthors. I use a new data set of the lifetime citation histories of over 1,000 economists from thirty universities to rank economics departments by various measures and demonstrate the importance of intra- and interdepartmental heterogeneity in productivity. Throughout, the discussion summarizes earlier work, including the impacts of citations on salaries and nonmonetary rewards, and how citations reflect judgments about research quality in economics and the importance of economic ideas.