Classifying top economists using archetypoid analysis

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Table 1. Descriptive statistics

776 Observations	Mean	Std. Dev.	Min	Max
Number of Distinct Works	152	80	75	1,102
-, Weighted by Simple Impact Factor	4,187	2,757	1,133	23,228
Number of Citations	4,794	4,520	921	46,645
-, Discounted by Citation Age	55,125	57,056	8,930	568,616
Number of pages	1,644	832	737	6,967
-, Weighted by Simple Impact Factor	36,481	26,261	10,759	253,971
Number of Downloads	1,063	829	349	8,057

Figure 1. RSS-plot

Table 2. Percentile values for each archetypoid

	Number of Works	Weighted Number of Works	Number of Citations	Weighted Number of Citations	Number of Pages	Weighted Number of Pages	Downloads
1	146	1,622	1,957	16,972	1,493	11,116	891
2	75	2,791	2,094	30,090	936	30,810	479
3	193	12,374	46,645	568,616	2,664	121,392	4,331
4	1,102	6,393	3,518	21,153	4,973	43,422	2,103

Figure 2. Identified archetypoids

Figure 3. Barplots of archetypoid shares allocated to the economists

Table 3. Economists top five for each archetypoid

Archetypoid	1	2	3	4
Francis Bloch	1.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Eleonora Patacchini	1.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
William F. Maloney	1.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Laurent Gobillon	1.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Xin Meng	1.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Thomas R. Palfrey	0.000	1.000	0.000	0.000
Debraj Ray	0.000	0.992	0.008	0.000
Larry G. Epstein	0.000	0.948	0.052	0.000
Martin L. Weitzman	0.000	0.947	0.053	0.000
Bruce D. Smith	0.000	0.925	0.000	0.075
Andrei Shleifer	0.000	0.000	1.000	0.000
James J. Heckman	0.000	0.000	1.000	0.000
Robert J. Barro	0.000	0.000	1.000	0.000
Daron Acemoglu	0.000	0.000	0.973	0.028
Jean Tirole	0.000	0.000	0.839	0.162
Peter Nijkamp	0.000	0.000	0.000	1.000
Michael McAleer	0.000	0.000	0.000	1.000
Hans-Werner Sinn	0.000	0.095	0.000	0.905
Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee	0.191	0.000	0.000	0.809
Bruno S. Frey	0.182	0.000	0.113	0.706

Data availability statement

Data is available upon request.