Regular readers know we aren't shy about exposing ourselves--sometimes it's better to expose yourself than have someone else expose you--or something like that. Anyhow:
- Dani Rodrik provides evidence that there is a positive correlation between academic reputation and blog rankings for academic economists. This is notable for Env-Econ for a couple of reasons:
- Env-Econ made the list of highest ranked econ blogs. We're number 24 and by my view the highest ranked non-general econ blog.
- John and I have academic reputations--and they're really not that bad. John's reputation--as measured by total citations to academic papers--is a little better than mine, but I attribute that to John's willingness to whore himself (academically speaking) for the right price...that, or John's older than me...or, John's papers are better than mine....crap, I'm depressed*.
- CurrencyTrading.net has published a list of the Top 100 Academic Blogs Every Professional Investor Should Read--#24** on this unranked list? Env-Econ.
- Take a look at the current spotlighted research for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration--see, I told you I had an academic reputation.
*Rodrik reports a correlation of .27 between blog ranking and citations (# of citations to academic papers) ranking of the author. As an experiment, I took Rodrik's data and looked at the correlation between blog rankings and citations for the most cited author of the blog--Rodrik uses all authors. When 'lesser' authors are removed, the correlation rises to .47. In other words, lower cited authors drag down the correlation. As noted above, John has the better academic reputation between us...I'm the anchor holding back this ship...Hey John, sorry for being an anchor...Crap, I'm still depressed.
**We're #24 in both rankings. My favorite TV show is '24.' Just thought you'd like to know.
