Saturday, March 10, 2007

Rate your professors










It is the time of the quarter when professors are being evaluated. I found this cool site from Greg Mankiw's blog. The website calculates so-called h-index, which measures research productivity of professors. Productivity is not only in terms of quantity but should also be of quality. The index sort of captures both: h is the number such that the researcher has at least h papers that have been cited h times.

With the help of the website, I ranked the professors of Economics Department based on the h-index:

Yin-Wong Cheung (24)
Michael Dooley (23)
Daniel Friedman* (22)
Carl Walsh (21)
Joshua Aizenman (20)
Kenneth Kletzer (17)
Michael Hutchison (16)
Donald Wittman (13)
Nirvikar Singh (12)
Lori Kletzer (11)
K.C. Fung* (11)
Robert Fairlie (11)
Phillip McCalman (7)
Federico Ravenna (6)
Bernard Elbaum (5)
David Kaun* (3)
Carlos Dobkin (3)
Ryan Oprea (2)
Justin Marion* (2)
Huibin Yan (1)
Richard Gil* (1)

*Adjusted for unmatched first name initial

Disclaimer: I don't know how accurate the website and its methodology are. I did this just for fun. If there is any mistake, please let me know. I am not responsible for any interpretation you have.

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