Evaluating Economic Research in a Contested Discipline

This book challenges the view that using SSCI journal citations (especially its impact factor score) and peer review/evaluation are the best ways (in that they are the most objective ways) to evaluate economic research. First extensive ranking of heterodox economics journalsFirst ranking of mainstream and heterodox journalsRanking of mainstream and heterodox graduate programs in the USImpact of national research assessment exercises on heterodox economics in Italy and AustraliaUse of social network analysis to examine the diffusion of heterodox economicsCritique of the use of citation metrics and heterodox economics; Social Science Citation Index with respect to economics is deliberately biased in favour of mainstream journals