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What is the benefit from publishing a working paper in a journal in terms of citations? Evidence from economics
- Source :
- Scientometrics. 126:4701-4714
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.
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Abstract
- Many papers in economics that are published in peer reviewed journals are initially released in widely circulated working paper series. This raises the question about the benefit of publishing in a peer-reviewed journal in terms of citations. Specifically, we address the question: to what extent does the stamp of approval obtained by publishing in a peer-reviewed journal lead to more subsequent citations for papers that are already available in working paper series? Our data set comprises about 28,000 working papers from four major working paper series in economics. Using panel data methods, we show that the publication in a peer reviewed journal results in around twice the number of yearly citations relative to working papers that never get published in a journal. Our results hold in several robustness checks.
- Subjects :
- business.industry
05 social sciences
General Social Sciences
Library science
Library and Information Sciences
050905 science studies
Computer Science Applications
Publishing
Political science
0509 other social sciences
050904 information & library sciences
Robustness (economics)
business
GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries)
Panel data
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15882861 and 01389130
- Volume :
- 126
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scientometrics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7ff5b7f0b3699e70eba67e7bffa90ef3