The importance in the papers' impact of the number of pages and of co-authors - an empirical estimation with data from top ranking economic journals

Pedro Vieira

FEP Working Papers from Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Economia do Porto

Abstract: On a regular basis the scientific output of academic people has to be evaluated, e.g. to decide tenure. A very important item in this evaluation is the published papers’ quality that tends to be approximated by its impact in the literature. As the measure of this impact requires a long-term analysis, thus it is used as its estimator the journal average impact where each paper is published. But some papers have a single author while others have several and some papers have one or two pages while others have more than fifty. In this work I validate the conjecture that these two variables have a significant and positive effect in papers’ future impact, i.e. in papers quality. Nonetheless, I quantify that this two variables jointly considered merely explain 2.8% of papers’ impact variability.

Keywords: Scientific Skill; Co-authorship; Papers’ impact (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 6 pages.
Date: 2005-03
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