Unveiling Citation Bias in Economics: Taste-based Discrimination Against Chinese-Authored Papers

Xiaoliang Yang and Peng Zhou
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Xiaoliang Yang: Zhongnan University of Economics and Law

No E2025/14, Cardiff Economics Working Papers from Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Economics Section

Abstract: A gravity model of citations for leading economics journals finds that papers with a Chinese first author receive on average 14 % fewer citations after controlling for quality and other attributes. U.S. institutional affiliation mitigates but does not remove the bias, which intensified during the COVID-19 period.

Keywords: Ethnic discrimination; Citation bias; Knowledge diffusion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J44 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2025-07
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