Do scientific publications by editorial board members have shorter publication delays and then higher influence?

Shuo Xu (), Mengjia An () and Xin An ()
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Shuo Xu: Beijing University of Technology
Mengjia An: Beijing Forestry University
Xin An: Beijing Forestry University

Scientometrics, 2021, vol. 126, issue 8, No 15, 6697-6713

Abstract: Abstract It seems have become a common practice for the editorial board members to publish the publications in their “own” journals. In view of the important position of the board members, this article devotes to exploiting the difference of the publications by board and non-board members from the perspectives of publication delay and influence. The Journal of Informetrics and Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology are taken as the resulting representative of emerging and verteran journals. After extensive analysis, we find that (1) the scientific publications by board members have shorter publication delays than those by non-board members; (2) the first or corresponding authorship dominates among the publications by board members; and (3) compared to those by non-board members, the academic articles by board members have more influence on average in term of citation counts. This may be a Matthew effect for editorial board membership.

Keywords: Editorial board member; Publication delay; Citation count; Matthew effect; 62-XX; 65-XX; 91-XX (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B23 C14 C25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-021-04067-x

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