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The Power of Rankings in Economics and Research Organizations: Contributions to the Social Studies of Economics book cover

1st Edition

The Power of Rankings in Economics and Research Organizations Contributions to the Social Studies of Economics

Edited By Stephan Pühringer, Jens Maesse, Thierry Rossier Copyright 2025
264 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Discourses around research excellence and quality are predominant within the economic sciences, with various forms of ranking playing a central role. They make “excellence” in research and teaching visible, but they also create hierarchical orders between researchers, institutions, publication outlets and countries. The authors of this volume analyse the role of rankings in shaping and... Read more

Introduction

  1. The power of rankings in economics and research organizations: an introduction

Stephan Pühringer, Jens Maesse, Thierry Rossier

 

Part I: Rankings and the formation of social hierarchies

2. Why are economists obsessed with rankings? An empirical and theoretical exploration of a field-specific preoccupation

Anders Hylmö, Ingvild Reymert and Björn Hammarfelt

3. Varieties of Truth Games: how economists produce different forms of true knowledge between ranking evaluations and political expertise  

Jens Maesse, Simon Peters

4. The Network Determinants of Publishing in Top 5 Journals. Evidence from the Swiss Field of Economics Professors (1991-2020)

Thierry Rossier

5. Gendered Competitive Practices in Economics

A Multi-Layer Model of Women’s Underrepresentation

Theresa Hager and Stephan Pühringer

 

PART II: Rankings and their impact on paradigmatic hegemony

6. On the relationship between society, metrification, and paradigmatic monism in economics

Rouven Reinke

 7. “Cream of the crop” A prosopographical analysis of the top 150 economists in the RePEc ranking

Pierre Fray, Arthur Jatteau

8. Rankings in relation to mathematical modeling and scientific understanding in economics

Bralind Kiri; Rodrigo Lopez-Orellana

 

PART III: Excellence policies and regulations through rankings: Critical Approaches

9. Evaluating research organisations: Public policy and the search for excellence in the trajectory of the Portuguese Science and Technology system

Luísa Veloso and Helena Carvalho

10. Organizers and promoters of academic competition?

The role of (academic) social networks and platforms in the competitization of science

Stephan Pühringer and Georg Wolfmayr

11. What are the disciplines of excellence?

The case of the French Excellence Initiatives.

Audrey Harroche

12. A Field Theory Approach to the Critical Study of Global University Rankings

Pablo Antonio Lillo Cea

Biography

Stephan Pühringer is a socio-economist and Deputy Head of the Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of Economy (ICAE) at the University of Linz, Austria, and is heading the Socio-Ecological- Transformation Lab there.

Jens Maesse is Senior Researcher (PD Dr habil) in the Department of Sociology at the University of Giessen (Germany).

Thierry Rossier is Senior Researcher at the Life Course and Inequality Centre (LIVES) of the University of Lausanne and Visiting Fellow in the Department of Sociology, London School of Economics.

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