Getting Noticed in Economics: The Determinants of Academic Citations

摘要: Academics strive for citations, but there has been little work done to identify the determinants of primarily due a lack usable data. This paper uses new data confirm intuition that reputation, documented research, collaboration, and signalling are important. However, results shed light on (and refute) some widely held conceptions about effects self-citation, author experience, editor biases, gender equality.