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| Title: | | The benefits of being economics professor A (and not Z)  |
| Authors: | | van Praag, C. Mirjam van Praag, Bernard M. S. |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Jena economic research papers 2007,004 |
| Abstract: | | Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the conven-tion in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Pro-fessor A, who has been a first author more often than Professor Z, will have publi-shed more articles and experienced a faster growth rate over the course of her ca-reer as a result of reputation and visibility. Moreover, authors know that name orde-ring matters and indeed take ordering seriously: Several characteristics of an author group composition determine the decision to deviate from the default alphabetic na-me order to a significant extent. |
| Subjects: | | performance measurement incentives economists name ordering |
| JEL: | | A11 A14 J32 J44 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Jena Economic Research Papers, MPI für Ökonomik
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