TY - UNPB

T1 - Citation Success

T2 - Evidence from Economic History Journal Publications

AU - Di Vaio, Gianfranco

AU - Waldenström, Daniel

AU - Weisdorf, Jacob Louis

N1 - JEL classification: A10, A11, A14, N10

PY - 2010

Y1 - 2010

N2 - This study analyses determinants of citation success among authors publishing in economic history journals. Bibliometric features, like article length and number of authors, are positively correlated with the citation rate up to a certain point. Remarkably, publishing in top-ranked journals hardly affects citations. In regard to author-specific characteristics, male authors, full professors and authors working economics or history departments, and authors employed in Anglo-Saxon countries, are more likely to get cited than others. As a ‘shortcut' to citation success, we find that research diffusion, measured by number of presentations and people mentioned in acknowledgement, boosts the citation rate.

AB - This study analyses determinants of citation success among authors publishing in economic history journals. Bibliometric features, like article length and number of authors, are positively correlated with the citation rate up to a certain point. Remarkably, publishing in top-ranked journals hardly affects citations. In regard to author-specific characteristics, male authors, full professors and authors working economics or history departments, and authors employed in Anglo-Saxon countries, are more likely to get cited than others. As a ‘shortcut' to citation success, we find that research diffusion, measured by number of presentations and people mentioned in acknowledgement, boosts the citation rate.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - bibliometrics

KW - scientometrics

KW - citation analysis

KW - citation success

KW - economic history

KW - Poisson regression

M3 - Working paper

BT - Citation Success

PB - Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen

ER -