Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
7243983 Journal of Economic Psychology 2018 33 Pages PDF
Abstract
Publications in leading journals are widely known to have a positive impact on economists' judgments of the value of authors' contributions and professional reputations. While conjectures that publications in lower-rated journals likely have a negative impact on such judgments are common, there have been virtually no direct tests of their validity. Our intent is to provide results from such a test, one that involved asking economists from 44 universities throughout the world to rate either a publication list with only higher-rated journals or a list with all of these but with additional publications in lower-rated journals. Our primary finding was that, holding other things constant, adding publications in lower-rated journals to what is typically considered a good publication record does have a significant negative impact on economists' judgments of the value of the author's contribution. Most implications of this bias suggest negative impacts on social welfare.
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