Easy to read, easy to cite?

Michael Dowling (1) , Helmi Hammami (2) , Ousayna Zreik (3)

1 ESC Rennes School of Business
2 College of Business and Economics, Qatar University
3 CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management

Ease of readability of Economics Letters abstracts, and number of works cited in an article, is positively related to future citations. Readability appears to particularly matter for mathematical and quantitative methods and macroeconomics papers, while number of works cited is generally important across all articles.

Mots clés: Readability; Research impact; Bibliometrics; Economics letters

Domaines: Économie et finance quantitative [q-fin]

Michael Dowling, Helmi Hammami, Ousayna Zreik. Easy to read, easy to cite?. Economics Letters, 2018, 173, pp.100-103. ⟨10.1016/j.econlet.2018.09.023⟩. ⟨hal-01958017⟩