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

John Gibson

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 125, issue 3, 343-346

Abstract: The academic labor market rewards idea splitting, where researchers publish several short articles rather than one long one. There is a significant positive effect on salary from publishing more articles, conditional on the total number of quality-adjusted pages ever published.

Keywords: Academic labor market; Faculty salary; Idea splitting; Research evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 J44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.10.005

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