High-ranked social science journal articles can be identified from early citation information
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Do citations accumulate too slowly in the social sciences to be used to assess the quality of recent articles? I investigate whether this is the case using citation data for all articles in economics and political science published in 2006 and indexed in the Web of Science. I find that citations in the first two years after publication explain more than half of the variation in cumulative citations received over a longer period. Journal impact factors improve the correlation between the...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2014-11-12 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/12283 |
Source: | PLoS ONE 9(11): e112520. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0112520 |
DOI: | 10.2139/ssrn.2456107 |
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