Tom Coupé () (Kyiv School of Economics and Kyiv Economics Institute) Victor Ginsburgh (ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles and CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain) Abdul Noury (CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain)
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Leading papers in a journal’s issue attract, on average, more citations than those that follow. It is, however, difficult to assess whether they are of better quality (as is often suggested), or whether this happens just because they appear first in an issue. We make use of a natural experiment that was carried out by a journal in which papers are randomly ordered in some issues, while this order is not random in others. We show that leading papers in randomly ordered issues also attract more citations, which casts some doubt on whether, in general, leading papers are of higher quality.
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Paper provided by Kyiv School of Economics in its series Discussion Papers with number
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Length: Date of creation: Jun 2008 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:kse:dpaper:9
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