On the Information Contents of Indirect Citations

Kim Sau Chung*, Meng Yu Liang, Melody Lo

*Corresponding author for this work

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    Abstract

    Citation indices, originally designed to measure influence, in practice are often repurposed by administrators and funding agencies as proxies for quality. Suppose there are more researchers in the mainstream than in the fringe, and it takes a higher quality to have the same influence across groups than within groups. Then, controlling for quality, a mainstream researcher may receive more citations than a fringe researcher. To correct for this mainstream bias, a citation index may need to be increasing in direct citations but decreasing in indirect citations.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)156-173
    Number of pages18
    JournalCanadian Journal of Economics
    Volume55
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Feb 2022

    Scopus Subject Areas

    • Economics and Econometrics

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