The lead article for 2010 in the Eastern Economic Journal (vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 1-10) is "Blogometrics" Franklin G. Mixon, Jr. and Kamal P. Upadhaya. It claims to rank economics bloggers, blogs, and universities, by the scholarly impact of the bloggers in question. This may be a worthy effort, but there is a complete mystery as to the set of blogs that they use in this study, with it apparently being tilted heavily towards Austrian or libertarian blogs, with none "further left" than either Brad DeLong's blog (a former official in the center-left Clinton presidency) and Mark Thoma's Economists View. While highly read Mankiw, Marginal Revolution, and Freakonomics are included, Krugman's blog is not, with him probably being more "progressive" than any of the 83 bloggers listed, of whom it is probably a race between DeLong, Thoma, and the late Paul Samuelson as to who is the "lefiest." As it is, of the 40 blogs considered, at least 5 are Austrian and at least another 5 are overwhelmingly libertarian. In terms of university rankings, while Harvard does come in at #1, George Mason is #16, while Princeton is not even on the list of 44 universities ranked. In the body of the paper it is stated once that they are studying the "main contributors to some of the most well-known blogs," although no method of selecting those is provided. On one table they give average page views per day from the EconDirectory of Gongol for 16 of their 40 blogs. Only three of these blogs are in the top ten of Gongol, with only only 7 of them coming in above the 426 for Econospeak (rank for Dec. 09, 59th), with one of them, macroblog, coming in at zero, and another that was listed as 963, at zero for the latest listing. I list below their list and top 40 from Gongol's most current posting, with commas separating the names of the blogs from the respective lists. I also note that they overstate the dominance of Americans in the econoblogosphere.
In addition to failing to count 95% of Tim's citations.
