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Are academics who publish more also more cited? Individual determinants of publication and citation records

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  • Clément Bosquet

    () (London School of Economics and Political Science (SERC), Aix-Marseille University (Aix-Marseille School of Economics))

  • Pierre-Philippe Combes

    () (Aix-Marseille University (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), CNRS & EHESS, Center for Economic Policy Research)

Abstract

Abstract Thanks to a unique individual dataset of French academics in economics, we explain individual publication and citation records by gender and age, co-authorship patterns (average number of authors per article and size of the co-author network) and specialisation choices (percentage of output in each JEL code). The analysis is performed on both EconLit publication scores (adjusted for journal quality) and Google Scholar citation indexes, which allows us to present a broad picture of knowledge diffusion in economics. Citations are largely driven by publication records, which means that these two measures are partly substitutes, but citations are also substantially increased by larger research team size and co-author networks.

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  • Clément Bosquet & Pierre-Philippe Combes, 2013. "Are academics who publish more also more cited? Individual determinants of publication and citation records," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 97(3), pages 831-857, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:97:y:2013:i:3:d:10.1007_s11192-013-0996-6
    DOI: 10.1007/s11192-013-0996-6
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    Keywords

    Economics of science; Productivity determinants; Knowledge diffusion; Publication scores; Citation indexes;

    JEL classification:

    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • J45 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Public Sector Labor Markets

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