Vain Economists

Economists like to compete and Google Scholar has given us a new way to compete with a ranking system that is merely one mouse click away.  Is this metric better than the REPEC metric?  We don't care.  We just want to compete.  We will soon see how many well cited economists register so that they can stand out in the pecking order.

Somebody should write a paper on this!  Such a researcher would face a riddle.  When I looked at the top 220 people (ranked by cites) who have already registered, only 12 are women.   Are women less vain or less cited?  You can use REPEC to answer the 2nd but how will you answer the 1st question?