DIFFERENCES IN CITATION PATTERNS ACROSS JOURNAL TIERS: THE CASE OF ECONOMICS |
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| Authors: | María Victoria Anauati Sebastian Galiani Ramiro H Gálvez |
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| Institution: | 1. Ministry of Treasury, Argentina, Secretaría de Política Económica, CABA, 1012;2. Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742;3. Universidad de Buenos Aires, CABA, Buenos Aires, 1414 Argentina |
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| Abstract: | We study how citation patterns differ between journal tiers in economics by analyzing citations patterns of more than 6,000 research articles published in top five, second tier, and top field economics journals. We find that top five journals' articles receive more citations and that the life cycles of those citations are longer. However, their influence (in term of citations) is overestimated: in its first twenty years since publication, the median top five article accumulates 4.25 as many citations when compared to non-top five median articles. This ratio is strongly associated with the field of economics research and with articles' impact. (JEL A14) |
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