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The relative quality of black economists

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The Review of Black Political Economy

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This paper identifies the top black economists and ranks them in terms of their quality. The measure used as the indicator of quality is the number of citations received by an individual economist. It is argued that citations represent influence in that they reflect the degree to which others have found that work to be useful in their research and are an indication of the amount of recognition an economist’s research has received. Using citation tabulations as the measure of quality, the rankings of the top twenty economists were calculated.

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  1. Marshall H. Medoff
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Medoff, M.H. The relative quality of black economists. Rev Black Polit Econ 18, 81–86 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02895234

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