CITATIONS AND INCENTIVES IN ACADEMIC CONTESTS |
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| Authors: | J Atsu Amegashie |
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| Institution: | Department of Economics and Finance, University of Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1 Canada |
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| Abstract: | I consider a contest between scholars on the basis of three popular indices of citation. There exist equilibria in which there are more and better-quality papers in the total citations contest than in the h-index contest. In some cases, the total citations contest yields the same quality of papers but more papers than the Euclidean contest. As the cost of writing a paper increases,the h-index is inferior to the total citations index in both the quality and quantity of papers. This result is partly driven by how the number of papers constrains how the h-index counts citations. (JEL D72) |
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