Ranking top economics departments

Rankings of Economics Faculties and Representation on Editorial Boards of Top Journals

“…Laband (1985a) used thirteen different criteria, both quantitative and qualitative, for the period 1971 to 1983, to obtain rankings of the top fifty economics departments (as reported by Graves, Marchand, and Thompson [GMT] [1982]) based on average departmental publication performance; he found significant correlations between almost all criteria. Brar, Nazemzadeh, and Chow (1987) found that the correlations between pairs of rankings by Laband's different criteria were highly significant in almost all cases. Bell and Seater (1978, 608), comparing the rankings of departments by Moore (1973), based on the period 1958 to 1968; by Siegfried (1972Siegfried ( ), using 1960Siegfried ( to 1969and by Niemi (1975), covering 1970 to 1974, found significant correlations in spite of the differing and nonoverlapping time periods.…”