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Economics Department one of world's best

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The Economics Department has been hailed as Canada鈥檚 best by Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), a free, publicly accessible, online global database that promotes scholarly communication in economics and related disciplines.

Based at the University of Connecticut, the database tracks research produced by Economics 颅departments around the world, including those at universities, central banks, and 颅international institutions.

The Economic 颅Department at Queen鈥檚 was ranked tops in Canada, and ninth in the world outside the U.S., 29th among universities, and 49th in the world overall. The rankings are based on 31 different criteria, mainly involving working papers, publications, and citations. 鈥淚t鈥檚 great to get such a high ranking on RePEc,鈥 says Professor James MacKinnon, Head of the Economics Department.

Queen鈥檚 has been contributing to the RePEc database, which tracks hundreds of thousands of working papers and journal articles from 69 countries, since 2006.

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