@article{4ae67a31539840ef981ab4984f092957,
title = "On the Information Contents of Indirect Citations",
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.",
author = "Chung, {Kim Sau} and Liang, {Meng Yu} and Melody Lo",
note = "Funding Information: We thank Jiahua Che, P{\'e}ter Es{\"o}, Chia‐hui Lu, Wojciech Olszewski and participants at various seminars and conferences for very helpful discussions. We are especially grateful to Sanjeev Goyal and Phil Reny for their critical comments on an earlier version and Marek Weretka (associate editor) and two referees for suggestions that dramatically improved our exposition. Chung and Lo thank HKBU for financial support via grant RC‐IG‐FNRA/17‐18/01. Liang thanks Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology for financial support via grant MOST 107‐2410‐H‐001‐042. Any errors are ours. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 Canadian Economics Association",
year = "2022",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1111/caje.12579",
language = "English",
volume = "55",
pages = "156--173",
journal = "Canadian Journal of Economics",
issn = "0008-4085",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "1",
}