Objective Rankings of Faculty Research by Department

The following is taken from The Journal of Economic Perspectives - Volume 12, Number 1 - Winter 1998 (pp. 157-170) The Conroy-Dusansky and Dusansky-Vernon Rankings A selective yet objective measurement criterion is impact-adjusted equal-apportioned pages in core journals, as in Conroy and Dusansky (1995). We update these rankings by advancing the clock three years, using the same methodology. This approach begins by counting the pages of the articles published in eight blue ribbon journals: American Economics Review, Econometrica, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, and Review of Economics and Statistics. Conroy and Dusansky tested the sensitivity of the rankings of the top 25 departments resulting from this journal set by considering alternative journal sets: the 24 journals used by Graves, Marchand and Thompson (1982), the top 24 from Liebowitz-Palmer (1984) and a set of 34 resulting from a union of the two. Using the same methodology with these different subsets of journals, the rankings of the top 25 departments were remarkably stable; only minor jostling within the top 25 occurred and the same 24 departments reappeared in each top 25 listing. The update therefore focuses exclusively on the eight blue-ribbon journals. In the original study, the time period for publication was 1987-1991; the update we present here is for 1990-1994. Dusansky- Vernon Overall Fall '95 University Dept. Aggregate Adjujsted Pages Rank-Agg Fall '95 Adjusted Pages Per Faculty Std. Dev. (pgs.-per) Rank-Per Fall '95 Mean Agg & Per Ranks 1 Princeton 482.8 2 11.78 16.1 1 1.5 2 Harvard 518.3 1 10.8 14.6 4 2.5 3 MIT 396.4 4 11.66 20 2 3 3 Pennsylvania 397.1 3 11.03 13.1 3 3 5 Northwestern 352.5 6 10.37 13.6 5 5.5 6 NYU 294 8 9.19 13 6 7 7 Boston University 318.4 7 8.84 13.3 8 7.5 7 Yale 369.5 5 8.59 19.6 10 7.5 9 Stanford 255.6 10 6.91 13 14 12 9 UC-SanDiego 214.8 13 7.96 10.2 11 12 11 Texas-Austin 218.7 12 7.05 15 13 12.5 12 Rochester 172.2 19 8.61 8.3 9 14 12 UC-Berkeley 262.8 9 6.41 11 19 14 14 Maryland 254.4 11 6.52 14.4 18 14.5 15 Johns Hopkins 118.9 26 9.14 11.8 7 16.5 15 Pittsburgh 183.7 16 6.56 16.8 17 16.5 17 Chicago 165 22 7.5 10 12 17 18 Minnesota 171.8 20 6.87 10.8 15 17.5 18 Wisconsin-Madison 187.5 14 5.86 9 21 17.5 20 Virginia 161.8 23 6.74 9.9 16 19.5 21 UCLA 182.3 17 5.21 13.4 24 20.5 22 Columbia 175.8 18 5.17 9.7 26 22