The Measurement of Intellectual Influence

  1. Ignacio Palacios-Huerta1,
  2. Oscar Volij2

Article first published online: 31 MAR 2004

DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00519.x

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Econometrica

Econometrica

Volume 72, Issue 3, pages 963–977, May 2004

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Palacios-Huerta, I. and Volij, O. (2004), The Measurement of Intellectual Influence. Econometrica, 72: 963–977. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00519.x

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  1. 1

    Dept. of Economics, Brown University, Providence, USA

  2. 2

    Dept. of Economics, Iowa State University, USA

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  1. Issue published online: 31 MAR 2004
  2. Article first published online: 31 MAR 2004

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Keywords:

  • Intellectual influence;
  • citations;
  • ranking methods;
  • consistency

This paper examines the problem of measuring intellectual influence based on data on citations between scholarly publications. We follow an axiomatic approach and find that the properties of invariance to reference intensity, weak homogeneity, weak consistency, and invariance to splitting of journals characterize a unique ranking method. This method is different from those regularly used in economics and other social sciences.

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