How does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics

A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of Hirsch’s index that emphasize smaller numbers of highly-cited papers perform better than Hirsch’s original index and have substantial power to explain which economists are tenured at which departments. Adjustment factors for differences across fields and years of experience are presented.Hirsch index, citation data, economics profession

System Energy Assessment (SEA), Defining a Standard Measure of EROI for Energy Businesses as Whole Systems

A more objective method for measuring the energy needs of businesses, System Energy Assessment (SEA), identifies the natural boundaries of businesses as self-managing net-energy systems, of controlled and self-managing parts. The method is demonstrated using a model Wind Farm case study, and applied to defining a true physical measure of its energy productivity for society (EROI-S), the global ratio of energy produced to energy cost. The traceable needs of business technology are combined with assignable energy needs for all other operating services. That serves to correct a large natural gap in energy use information. Current methods count traceable energy receipts for technology use. Self-managing services employed by businesses outsource their own energy needs to operate, and leave no records to trace. Those uncounted energy demands are often 80% of the total embodied energy of business end products. The scale of this "dark energy" was discovered from differing global accounts, and corrected so the average energy cost per dollar for businesses would equal the world average energy use per dollar of GDP. Presently the energy needs of paid services that outsource their own energy needs are counted for lack of information to be "0". Our default assumption is to treat them as "average". The result is to assign total energy use and impacts to the demand for energy services, for a "Scope 4" GHG assessment level. Counting only the energy uses of technology understates the energy needs of business services, as if services were more energy efficient than technology. The result confirms a similar finding by Hall et. al. in 1981 [9]. We use exhaustive search for what a business needs to operate as a whole, locating a natural physical boundary for its working parts, to define businesses as physical rather than statistical subjects of science. :measurement, natural systemsComment: 33 pages, 15 figures, accepted as part of pending special issue on EROI organized by Charlie Hall for Sustainability (MDPI

Accounting trends and techniques, 28th annual survey, 1974 edition

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aicpa_att/1018/thumbnail.jp

Financial reporting in the extractive industries; Accounting research study no. 11

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aicpa_guides/1142/thumbnail.jp

Audits of fire and casualty insurance companies (1979); Industry audit guide; Audit and accounting guide

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aicpa_indev/1459/thumbnail.jp

Accounting trends and techniques, 30th annual survey, 1976 edition

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aicpa_att/1020/thumbnail.jp

The relationship of investment accounting to investment policies of United States life insurance companies

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Boston Universit

Accounting trends and techniques, 20th annual survey, 1966 edition

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Accounting trends and techniques, 21st annual survey, 1967 edition

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aicpa_att/1011/thumbnail.jp

Improving Monetary Control

macroeconomics, monetary control