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- Title
On the information contents of indirect citations.
- Authors
Chung, Kim‐Sau; Liang, Meng‐Yu; Lo, Melody
- Abstract
Citation indices, originally designed to measure influence, in practice are often repurposed by administrators and funding agencies as proxies for quality. Suppose there are more researchers in the mainstream than in the fringe, and it takes a higher quality to have the same influence across groups than within groups. Then, controlling for quality, a mainstream researcher may receive more citations than a fringe researcher. To correct for this mainstream bias, a citation index may need to be increasing in direct citations but decreasing in indirect citations.
- Subjects
CITATION indexes; QUALITY control
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Economics, 2022, Vol 55, Issue 1, p156
- ISSN
0008-4085
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/caje.12579