Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33850 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2673
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention 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, Professor A, who has been a first author more often than Professor Z, will have published more articles and experienced a faster growth rate over the course of her career as a result of reputation and visibility. Moreover, authors know that name ordering matters and indeed take ordering seriously: Several characteristics of an author group composition determine the decision to deviate from the default alphabetic name order to a significant extent
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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