HSE’s Ranking in SSRN: August 2012
The Social Science Research Network has published its university rankings for August, 1, 2012.
Currently 154 HSE authors publish their papers on SSRN. Based on this indicator, the HSE is in 5th position out of 1500 universities, departments and research centers of socio-economic profile. In terms of the number of papers published over the last 12 months the HSE has climbed from 8th to 6th place. At the beginning of 2012 the university was in 83rd position based on this indicator. Such remarkable growth demonstrates the high interest and publication activity among international and Russian staff of the HSE in SSRN.
In the updated ranking of HSE authors in SSRN Vladimir Fomichov, who has published 5 papers over the last month, has climbed to the first place in terms of the number of new papers together with Mikhail Lokshin. The most read and cited HSE authors still include Dean Fantazzini, Mikhail Lokshin, Timothy Frye, and Dmitry Repin.
Among the HSE programme of fundamental research working papers, the papers by Nadezhda Lebedeva, Peter Schmidt ‘Values and Attitudes towards Innovation among Canadian, Chinese and Russian Students’, Anna Lukiyanova ‘Effects of Minimum Wages on the Russian Wage Distribution’ and Tatiana Borisova ‘The Digest of Laws of the Russian Empire: the Phenomenon of Autocratic Legality’ have all improved their positions in terms of the number of views in SSRN.
Michael Lokshin
Vladimir Alexandrovich Fomichov
Timothy Michael Frye
Peter Schmidt
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