{"id":8191,"date":"2015-01-08T15:53:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T15:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress72\/?p=26653"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:26","slug":"eur-professor-heads-the-economentop-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2015\/01\/08\/eur-professor-heads-the-economentop-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"EUR professor heads the Economentop ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daan van Knippenberg, Professor of Organizational Behavior at RSM, holds first place in the Economentop 40 2014. Indeed, EUR in general is well-represented in this year\u2019s ranking. In addition to Van Knippenberg, the list includes eight other EUR economists. <\/p>\n

The Economentop 40 is a yearly ranking of Dutch scholars in economics. Tilburg University remains the highest-scoring institution overall. Of the top 10 economists, no less than seven are employed by the Brabant university. A total of nine EUR researchers made this year\u2019s list, compared to twelve included in those of the previous two years. <\/p>\n

For this edition of Economentop, the Dutch magazine Economische Statistische Berichten (ESB) \u2013 responsible for compiling the ranking \u2013 made some major changes to the method used for calculating the economists\u2019 scores. This has led to significant shifts in the ranking. While last year, five EUR scientists could be found in the top 10; on the 2014 list, their number has dwindled to Professor Van Knippenberg. In Economentop 2013, Van Knippenberg held fourth place. Remarkably, this year\u2019s selection of forty \u2018leading economists\u2019 is a strictly male affair.<\/p>\n

Method<\/strong><\/p>\n

Through the current change to its calculation method, ESB hopes to encourage scientists to invest more heavily in the quality of their publications rather than the number of articles published. Whereas last year\u2019s list was still based on the economists\u2019 articles, comments, letters, notes, meetings and conference contributions as published in the Web of Science database, this year, the scientists were represented by their 15 highest-scoring articles in the period 2009-2013. The publications\u2019 individual scores are subsequently dependent on the number of contributing authors and the influence of the journal in question in the scientific community (Article Influence Score). EvR<\/p>\n\n\t

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