Dan Ben-David (Tel Aviv University, Eitan Berglas School of Economics) has posted Ranking Israel's Economists on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
One of the more important measures of a scholar's research impact is the number of times that the scholar's work is cited by other researchers as a source of knowledge. This paper conducts a first of its kind examination on Israel's academic economists and economics departments, ranking them according to the number of citations on their work. It also provides a vista into one of the primary reasons given by junior Israeli economists for an unparalleled brain drain from the country — discrepancies between research impact and promotion.
The type of examination carried out in this paper can now be easily replicated in other fields and in other countries utilizing freely-available citations data and compilation software that have been made readily accessible in recent years
(Hat Tip: Daniel Sokol.)



