Returns to articles versus pages in academic publishing: Do salary-setters show ‘article illusion’?

Gibson, John

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2014.10.005

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“…The first analysis adds an extra covariate—the count of articles ever published by each academic. Citations are higher for academics who publish more articles, conditional upon their total number of coauthor‐, size‐, and quality‐adjusted pages (Gibson ). Thus in Table , the citation counts may act as a proxy for an excluded relevant variable—the total number of articles.…”

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“…These models have the HRH specification of citations variables 24. The statistical significance of the total count of articles-with no differentiation into journal tiers-for the journal assessment schemes that are most convex (LP, KMS, K&Y, and CLh) suggests that quality and quantity of journal output is relevant to pay, as also shown in Gibson (2014) but this pattern also is hidden by the journal tiers approach. along with our specification of journals variables.…”

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“…This comparison does not control for journal quality, which is highly correlated with citations, so the absence of journal quality measures may cause citation impacts to be overstated. In general, article counts may not be the best summary measure of journal output, and a head‐to‐head comparison shows that counts of articles explain less variation in salary than is explained by size‐, coauthor‐ and quality‐adjusted pages (Gibson ). Thus the question of what a comparison of citations versus journals might reveal when a more complete representation of journal quality is used remains open.…”

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Citations or Journal Quality: Which Is Rewarded More in the Academic Labor Market?

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Research quality can be evaluated from citations or from the prestige of journals publishing the research. We relate salary of tenured University of California (UC) economists to their lifetime publications of 5,500 articles and to the 140,000 citations to these articles. Citations hardly affect salary, especially in top‐ranked UC departments where impacts of citations are less than one‐tenth those of journals. In lower ranked departments, and when journal quality is less comprehensively measured, effects of citations on salary increase. If journal quality is just measured by counting articles in journal tiers, apparent effects of citations are overstated. (JEL A14, J44)

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“…These rankings, in turn, determine the perception of the quality of authors, universities and journals. Such impressions of quality play a central role in determining academics' job market outcomes and the receipt of grants, prize, awards and honors (Hamermesh, 2013(Hamermesh, , 2018Ellison, 2013;Gibson, 2014;Gibson et al, 2014;Anauati et al, 2016;Sandnes, 2018).…”

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Article length and citation outcomes

Hasan

Breunig

2021

Scientometrics

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We examine whether there is any causal effect of article length on citation. Focusing on articles published between 2010 and 2014 in the top five journals in economics and their citation count in Google Scholar, we find that a one per cent increase in page length generates a 0.55 per cent increase in the number of citations. A small survey of economists suggests that this effect may be a result of longer articles containing both theory and empirical elements. We interpret our result as a causal estimate conditional on average quality per page.

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“…The relationship between publication patterns and salary has also been investigated. In a study of 223 economists at the University of California, Gibson (2014) found that splitting results into several shorter articles instead of fewer longer articles gives higher salaries. Jin and Cho (2015) found a correlation between Korean academic salaries and international journal articles, while no correlation between salaries and national journals.…”

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Do Norwegian academics who publish more earn higher salaries?

Sandnes

2018

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Based on a sense of justice one may expect that productive academics with high publication outputs earn higher salaries than less productive academics. However, there is little evidence to support or reject such a belief. This explorative study correlated salary data with publication data for the academic employees of one of the largest HEIs in Norway. The results show that overall there is a weak correlation between publication output and salary. Salary correlates with rank (low, medium, top), and rank correlates with publication output. Within each of the groups, apart from the full professors, there is no positive correlation between how productive an academic is and what an academic earns. In fact, when comparing inactive and active lowranking contract researchers, the results showed that active researchers earned significantly less than what their inactive colleagues did. The results suggest that publishing is not rewarded monetarily and aspiring early career academics should adopt a strategy involving more diverse activities than just publishing to climb the salary ladder.

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Returns to articles versus pages in academic publishing: Do salary-setters show ‘article illusion’?

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Citations or Journal Quality: Which Is Rewarded More in the Academic Labor Market?

Citations or Journal Quality: Which Is Rewarded More in the Academic Labor Market?

Article length and citation outcomes

Do Norwegian academics who publish more earn higher salaries?

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