Easy to read, easy to cite?

Michael Dowling (), Helmi Hammami and Ousayna Zreik ()
Additional contact information
Michael Dowling: ESC [Rennes] - ESC Rennes School of Business
Helmi Hammami: ESC [Rennes] - ESC Rennes School of Business
Ousayna Zreik: ESC [Rennes] - ESC Rennes School of Business

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: Ease of readability of Economics Letters abstracts, and number of works cited in an article, is positively related to future citations. Readability appears to particularly matter for mathematical and quantitative methods and macroeconomics papers, while number of works cited is generally important across all articles.

Keywords: Readability; Research impact; Bibliometrics; Economics letters (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-12
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (8)

Published in Economics Letters, 2018, 173, pp.100-103. ⟨10.1016/j.econlet.2018.09.023⟩

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01958017

DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2018.09.023

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().