Understanding and Evaluating Research: A Critical Guide shows students how to be critical
consumers of research and to appreciate the power of methodology as it shapes the …

In this paper we develop a new approach to sparse principal component analysis (sparse
PCA). We propose two single-unit and two block optimization formulations of the sparse …

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 …

Despite the social importance of awards, they have been largely disregarded by academic
research in economics. This paper investigates whether receiving prestigious academic …

Research on the impact of and attention given to journal covers is a crucial research topic in
academia. This study investigated whether a paper featured on the cover of a journal …

Previous studies produced mixed results with respect to the correlation between title length
and number of citations. This research aims to provide a new explanation for this …

The development of the Association of Business Schools (ABS) list in 2007 and its rapid
adoption by UK business schools has had a profound effect on the nature of business and …

This study examines if and how gender relates to research evaluation via panel assessment
and journal ratings lists. Using data from UK business schools we find no evidence that the …

Do academic journals favor authors who share their institutional affiliation? To answer this
question we examine citation counts, as a proxy for paper quality, for articles published in …

This paper studies academic in-group bias in the top five economics journals. We examine
citation counts for articles published in these journals during the years 2006–2015, and …