March 2018
In the online journal of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), two scholars from the University of Haifa have published a study examining if academic journals favour authors who share their institutional affiliation. Comparing citation counts with a ‘difference-in-differences methodology for articles written by in-group members, the authors find that when there is an affiliation between author and journal, the articles get 9 to 19 fewer citations. Taking citations as a proxy for quality, the intimation is that authors with affiliation to a journal get their article placed more easily and with lower quality.
March 12, 2018
