Thursday, January 7, 2010

Blogometrics

Franklin Mixon Jr. and Kamal Upadhyayab published an article about economics bloggers and the ratings of their scholarly works. Here is the abstract:
This study gathers information on a wide array of economics bloggers and blogs in order to develop a ranking of economics bloggers that is based on citations to their academic research. This ranking is used in an iterative process that next presents a ranking of economics blogs that is based on the ranking of economics bloggers, and finally a ranking of economics departments that is based on the ranking of economics blogs...
Read the article from the Eastern Economic Journal here. Definitely check out the charts. In my opinion, Greg Mankiw's Blog is one of the best economics blogs in cyberspace. Sadly, no Dukies on the list.


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