Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/216357 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13045
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We examine whether there is any causal effect of article length on citation. Focusing on articles published between 2010 and 2014 in the top five journals in economics and their citation count in Google Scholar, we find that a one per cent increase in page length generates a 0.55 per cent increase in the number of citations. A small survey of economists suggests that this effect may be a result of longer articles containing both theory and empirical elements. We interpret our result as a causal estimate conditional on average quality per page.
Subjects: 
article length
Google Scholar
citations
economics
JEL: 
A14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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