Fratzscher fired Weizsäcker as head of DIW's PhD programme. Lower quality = more controlwhat?
Insiders please: What is going on?
German Market
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They tried hard to lure some big shot to Munich. But I dont know whether they were successful.
Didn’t they try to get Scheuer on a Humboldt Professorship? I guess it’s hard to compete with a UBS chair...
You really think that someone with ~600 citations can get a Humboldt Professorship? You are a funny guy! In Economics it is about mechanical counting of top 5s, everywhere else not.
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Weighted or unweighted is completely irrelevant when we talk about 600 citations and declining growth rate. No impact at all.
It seems you did not get it and probably will never get it.
1. Pure number of unweighted citations is a very noisy measure of impact.
2. I didn't check, but he is still young and the number of citations may be rapidly increasing. What is the growth rate of citations? -
What_is_going_on?
Long_story_short:_MF_is_the_problem._Er_hat_ein_grosses_Ego,_will_staendig_in_die_Zeitung_mit_seinem_SPD-Mist_und_ertraegt_es_nicht,_wenn_jemand_wie_GW_auf_Missstaende_hinweist_und_die_Arbeit_vernuenftig_macht._Selbst_die_Direktoren_im_DIW_sind_von_dem_lieben_MF_genervt,_der_sich_um_nichts_kuemmert,_den_Laden_schleifen_laesst_und_nur_seine_Interviewanfragen_zaehlt._Mag_sein,_dass_der_viel_veroeffentlicht,_als_Leiter_der_Institution_ist_er_ein_voelliger_Versager.
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What.is.going.on?
Long.story.short:.MF.is.the.problem..Er.hat.ein.grosses.Ego,.will.staendig.in.die.Zeitung.mit.seinem.SPD-Mist.und.ertraegt.es.nicht,.wenn.jemand.wie.GW.auf.Missstaende.hinweist.und.die.Arbeit.vernuenftig.macht..Selbst.die.Direktoren.im.DIW.sind.von.dem.lieben.MF.genervt,.der.sich.um.nichts.kuemmert,.den.Laden.schleifen.laesst.und.nur.seine.Interviewanfragen.zaehlt..Mag.sein,.dass.der.viel.veroeffentlicht,.als.Leiter.der.Institution.ist.er.ein.voelliger.Versager.
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citations are a measure of influence not of importance.
Importance to whom? Science is a social undertaking. How can anything be important that is not read / cited by your peers?
Important to editors and referees from elite institutions, which is the only metric that counts in our profession.
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I think you want to be careful what you say. This is basically what’s wrong with the profession and about Florian you effectively say: he weaseled himself into the grace of a bunch of editors using his HRM credentials. Not clear you want to do this as a fanboy.
citations are a measure of influence not of importance.
Importance to whom? Science is a social undertaking. How can anything be important that is not read / cited by your peers?
Important to editors and referees from elite institutions, which is the only metric that counts in our profession.
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No, actually not. Let me elaborate on citations is not influence.
a) If citations are influence we should see - promotion by citations and - highly cited professor should have the best positions. Sit back, relax, google who are the highest cited professors in germany.b) Citations reflect use of knowledge inside the profession. But other use our knowledge too. Central Banks, the federal government and antitrust consultants to name few. And they cite you only in extraordinarey circumstances. Put differently, if a paper of yours swings a major antitrust case or becomes tax law, that is influence.
Careful. When you actually talk to elite institution people you will notice that they absolutely care about influence and citations. There is a reason why despite his HRM endowment Scheuer didn’t make it in the big pond.