Readership and citations as alternative measures of impact

Roger Congleton, Alex Marsella and Alexander J. Cardazzi
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Alex Marsella: West Virginia University
Alexander J. Cardazzi: West Virginia University

Constitutional Political Economy, 2022, vol. 33, issue 1, No 6, 100-114

Abstract: Abstract This paper undertakes a statistical analysis of citations and readership of papers published in the journal Constitutional Political Economy. Its focus is not the usual attempt to assess the relative impact of articles or authors but rather to suggest that readership (downloads) is a more general measure of impact and one that should be given more attention. Downloads are not simply a product of citations; nor are citations a simple product of downloads. They are distinct measures of impact. Papers and authors are evidently judged one at a time by their readers and by those who subsequently cite papers that they have read.

Keywords: Citations; Downloads; Ranking of journals; Constitutional political economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 B10 D7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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