From EWOT:
From Blogometrics--the forthcoming article in the Eastern Economic Journal by Mixon and Upadhyaya:My new, outstanding colleague in Econ, Frank Mixon, and his co-author, Kumal Upadhyaya, have a new paper titled "Blogometrics" that's worth a look.
The authors find a strong correlation between research productivity and blog popularity.There's also a nice narrative in the paper about some of the gems in the blogosphere, such as Marginal Revolution , Core Economics, and Environmental Economics
There are some interesting economics blogs among the second tier of the top portion ranked in Table 2. For instance, a blog devoted to the economics of the environment--Environmental Economics— comes in at 17th [out of 39 economics blogs ranked by scholarly impact of contributors]. It is spearheaded by Appalachian State University’s John Whitehead, who is ranked 21st [among top economics bloggers ranked by scholarly impact], and Ohio State University’s Tim Haab, who is ranked 67th.
A big bone to pick. It appears that the authors used "Tim Haab" to search the Harzing database for citations. This puts me at 20 total citations or 1.43 cites per year. That sucks. I have an ego, and it's bruised. I'm sensitive.
So I downloaded Harzing's software and checked for myself. Searching on "Tim Haab" I get 32 cites or 2.29 per year. Not much better. BUT, if I use TC Haab (my academic nom de plume) I get 1,166 cites, or 77.73 per year. Assuming the rest of the results in Mixon and Upadhyaya's Table 2 are correct, that would rank me not 67th, but 13th Using this number combined with John's numbers reported in the article*, EnvEcon's average cites per year would be 56.64 per year, ranking EnvEcon 10th (not 17th).Thanks for listening.
*I tried checking John's results too, but Whitehead and is so daggone common I couldn't figure out which pubs were his. And oddly enough Lonewolf didn't turn up anything.
