Amos Golan

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Amos Golan is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Amos Golan has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 24 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 13 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Amos Golan's work include Statistical Mechanics and Entropy (23 papers), Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (15 papers) and Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets (8 papers). Amos Golan is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Mechanics and Entropy (23 papers), Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (15 papers) and Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets (8 papers). Amos Golan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and United Kingdom. Amos Golan's co-authors include George G. Judge, Douglas J. Miller, Jeffrey M. Perloff, Sherman Robinson, Haim Shalit, Larry S. Karp, Min Chen, Stephen J. Vogel, Aman Ullah and John Harte and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Statistical Association and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Amos Golan

58 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Maximum entropy econometrics: robust estimation with limited data

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amos Golan United States	22	919	365	296	241	221	60	2.0k
Peter Winker Germany	24	662 0.7×	903 2.5×	56 0.2×	266 1.1×	296 1.3×	117	2.8k
Göran Kauermann Germany	24	497 0.5×	195 0.5×	81 0.3×	933 3.9×	152 0.7×	131	2.3k
Ron C. Mittelhammer United States	18	943 1.0×	126 0.3×	48 0.2×	169 0.7×	168 0.8×	96	1.9k
Michael D. Intriligator United States	25	2.4k 2.6×	450 1.2×	58 0.2×	185 0.8×	788 3.6×	100	3.9k
P. R. Fisk United Kingdom	11	506 0.6×	226 0.6×	62 0.2×	591 2.5×	426 1.9×	23	2.1k
James B. McDonald United States	27	1.2k 1.3×	434 1.2×	70 0.2×	921 3.8×	418 1.9×	96	3.0k
R. Carter Hill United States	21	1.0k 1.1×	191 0.5×	25 0.1×	289 1.2×	287 1.3×	76	2.2k
Stefan Sperlich Switzerland	21	452 0.5×	272 0.7×	28 0.1×	873 3.6×	194 0.9×	101	2.2k
R. Kelley Pace United States	28	2.6k 2.9×	129 0.4×	28 0.1×	192 0.8×	145 0.7×	88	3.4k
Steven C. Hillmer United States	18	593 0.6×	537 1.5×	26 0.1×	248 1.0×	421 1.9×	39	1.7k

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All Works

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Golan, Amos, et al.. (2024). An Information-Theoretic Method for Identifying Effective Treatments and Policies at the Beginning of a Pandemic. Entropy. 26(12). 1021–1021. 1 indexed citations

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Golan, Amos, William H. Greene, & Jeffrey M. Perloff. (2021). Does the U.S. Navy’s reliance on objective standards prevent discrimination in promotions and retentions?. PLoS ONE. 16(4). e0250630–e0250630. 1 indexed citations

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Sbert, Mateu, et al.. (2020). Interpreting Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) as an Information Channel. Entropy. 22(12). 1346–1346. 3 indexed citations

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Golan, Amos. (2013). Information Dynamics. Minds and Machines. 24(1). 19–36. 4 indexed citations

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Golan, Amos & Henryk Gzyl. (2012). An Entropic Estimator for Linear Inverse Problems. Entropy. 14(5). 892–923. 4 indexed citations

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Golan, Amos, et al.. (2010). Identifying Strategies and Beliefs Without Rationality Assumptions. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Golan, Amos & Henryk Gzyl. (2010). A Concentrated, Nonlinear Information-Theoretic Estimator for the Sample Selection Model. Entropy. 12(6). 1569–1580. 1 indexed citations

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Golan, Amos. (2008). Information and Entropy Econometrics — A Review and Synthesis. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 2(1-2). 1–145. 89 indexed citations

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Perloff, Jeffrey M., Larry S. Karp, & Amos Golan. (2007). Estimating Market Power and Strategies. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 12 indexed citations

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Golan, Amos. (2006). Information and entropy econometrics – volume overview and synthesis. Journal of Econometrics. 138(2). 379–387. 15 indexed citations

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Golan, Amos, Enrico Moretti, & Jeffrey M. Perloff. (2004). A Small-Sample Estimator for the Sample-Selection Model. Econometric Reviews. 23(1). 71–91. 4 indexed citations

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Golan, Amos & Jeffrey M. Perloff. (2004). Superior Forecasts of the U.S. Unemployment Rate Using a Nonparametric Method. The Review of Economics and Statistics. 86(1). 433–438. 17 indexed citations

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Golan, Amos & Jeffrey M. Perloff. (2002). Comparison of maximum entropy and higher-order entropy estimators. Journal of Econometrics. 107(1-2). 195–211. 39 indexed citations

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Golan, Amos. (2001). A simultaneous estimation and variable selection rule. Journal of Econometrics. 101(1). 165–193. 15 indexed citations

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Golan, Amos & V. Dose. (2001). A generalized information theoretical approach to tomographic reconstruction. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General. 34(7). 1271–1283. 9 indexed citations

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Miller, David L., Amos Golan, & George G. Judge. (1998). Information Recovery in Simultaneous Equation Statistical Models. Staff General Research Papers Archive. 4 indexed citations

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Golan, Amos, George G. Judge, & Douglas J. Miller. (1996). Maximum Entropy Econometrics. Staff General Research Papers Archive. 125 indexed citations

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Golan, Amos, et al.. (1995). ESTIMATING THE SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF FIRMS USING GOVERNMENT SUMMARY STATISTICS. Journal of Industrial Economics. 44(1). 93696. 45 indexed citations

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Golan, Amos. (1991). The discrete continuous choice of economic modeling or quantum economic chaos. Mathematical Social Sciences. 21(3). 261–286. 2 indexed citations

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Golan, Amos. (1988). A discrete-stochastic model of economic production and a model of production fluctuations-theory and empirical evidence. UMI Dissertation Services eBooks. 5 indexed citations

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