This book challenges the view that using SSCI journal citations (especially its impact factor score) and peer review/evaluation are the best ways (in that they are the most objective ways) to evaluate economic research.

• First extensive ranking of heterodox economics journals
• First ranking of mainstream and heterodox journals
• Ranking of mainstream and heterodox graduate programs in the US
• Impact of national research assessment exercises on heterodox economics in Italy and Australia
• Use of social network analysis to examine the diffusion of heterodox economicsCritique of the use of citation metrics and heterodox economics; Social Science Citation Index with respect to economics is deliberately biased in favour of mainstream journals

Frederic S. Lee is a Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has published extensively on heterodox microeconomics, on the history of heterodox economics.  He was the editor of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter and the executive director of ICAPE.  He is currently the editor of the American Journal of Economics and Sociology.  He has published in numerous heterodox journals including the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Review of Radical Political Economics, Review of Social Economy, and the Journal of Economic Issues.