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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
Abstract : 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.
Keywords : Readability Research impact Bibliometrics Economics letters
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Submitted on : Monday, December 17, 2018 - 4:23:49 PM
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Michael Dowling, Helmi Hammami, Ousayna Zreik. Easy to read, easy to cite?. Economics Letters, Elsevier, 2018, 173, pp.100-103. ⟨hal-01958017⟩

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