Returns to articles versus pages in academic publishing: Do salary-setters show ‘article illusion’?

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2014
Volume: 125
Issue: 3
Pages: 343-346

Score contribution per author:

1.005 = (α=2.01 / 1 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

The academic labor market rewards idea splitting, where researchers publish several short articles rather than one long one. There is a significant positive effect on salary from publishing more articles, conditional on the total number of quality-adjusted pages ever published.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:125:y:2014:i:3:p:343-346
Journal Field
General
Author Count
1
Added to Database
2026-01-25