Article length bias in journal rankings

László Á. Kóczy (), Alexandru Nichifor and Martin Strobel ()
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Martin Strobel: Department of Economics, Maastricht University

No 902, Working Paper Series from Budapest Tech, Keleti Faculty of Economics

Abstract: The quality of publications, approximated by the containing journal's quality indicator, is often the basis for hire and promotion in academic and research positions. Over the years a handful of ranking methods have been proposed. Discussing the most prominent methods we show that they are inherently biased against journals publishing short papers.

Keywords: quality ranking; paper length; impact factor; invariant method; LP method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2009
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