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The Economics of Citation

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  • Jeong-Yoo Kim

    (Kyun Hee University)

  • Insik Min

    (Kyun Hee University)

  • Christian Zimmermann

    (University of Connecticut)

Abstract

In this paper, we study the citation decision of a scientific author. By citing a related work, authors can make their arguments more persuasive. We call this the correlation effect. But if authors cite other work, they may give the impression that they think the cited work is more competent than theirs. We call this the reputation effect. These two effects may be the main sources of citation bias. We empirically show that there is a citation bias in Economics by using data from RePEc. We also report how the citation bias differs across regions (U.S., Europe and Asia).

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Paper provided by University of Connecticut, Department of Economics in its series Working papers with number 2007-31.

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Length: 25 pages
Date of creation: Aug 2007
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Handle: RePEc:uct:uconnp:2007-31

Note: This research was begun when the first author was visiting ISER, Osaka University in the winter of 2005. We are grateful to seminar audiences at the University of Connecticut and participants in the applied microeconomics workshop held at Korea Foundation of Advanced Studies for helpful comments.
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Keywords: citation bias; correlation effect; reputation effect; signal; strategy; RePEc;

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  1. Christian Zimmermann, 2012. "Academic rankings with RePEc," Working Papers 2012-023, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
  2. Jeong-Yoo Kim & Jinho Park, 2006. "On Prejudice," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Scottish Economic Society, vol. 53(4), pages 505-522, 09.
  3. Banerjee, Abhijit V, 1992. "A Simple Model of Herd Behavior," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 107(3), pages 797-817, August.
  4. Sushil Bikhchandani & David Hirshleifer & Ivo Welch, 2010. "A theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom and cultural change as informational Cascades," Levine's Working Paper Archive 1193, David K. Levine.
  5. Wright, Malcolm & Armstrong, J. Scott, 2007. "Verification of Citations: Fawlty Towers of Knowledge?," MPRA Paper 4149, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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  1. Economics of Citation
    by Amol Agrawal in Mostly Economics on 2008-08-25 12:22:53
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Cited by:
  1. Richard S. J. Tol, 2013. "The Matthew Effect for Cohorts of Economists," Working Paper Series 5513, Department of Economics, University of Sussex.

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