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
Middle name initials are often used by people in contexts where intellectual performance matters. Gi...
Southern Economic Journal © 2005 Southern Economic AssociationWe observe a great deal of heterogenei...
We observe a great deal of heterogeneity in the manner in which author orderings are assigned both a...
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics...
Alphabetical name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in economics a...
Alphabetical name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in economics a...
In economics, most coauthored papers have all coauthors in alphabetical order. It is sometimes argue...
In economics, most coauthored papers have all coauthors in alphabetical order. It is sometimes argue...
This paper reports the results of an empirical analysis of name ordering strategies used for multi-a...
IntroductionIn academia, many institutions use journal article publication productivity for making d...
Paper authorship and author placement have significant consequences for accountability and assignmen...
Many prior studies suggest that default alphabetical ordering of coauthors in economicsconfers dispr...
Prior investigations have offered contrasting results on a troubling question: whether the alphabeti...
Alphabetical ordering of author surnames in academic publishing: a detriment to teamwor
Alphabetical name order is the norm for joint publications in economics. However, alphabetical order...
Middle name initials are often used by people in contexts where intellectual performance matters. Gi...
Southern Economic Journal © 2005 Southern Economic AssociationWe observe a great deal of heterogenei...
We observe a great deal of heterogeneity in the manner in which author orderings are assigned both a...
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics...
Alphabetical name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in economics a...
Alphabetical name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in economics a...
In economics, most coauthored papers have all coauthors in alphabetical order. It is sometimes argue...
In economics, most coauthored papers have all coauthors in alphabetical order. It is sometimes argue...
This paper reports the results of an empirical analysis of name ordering strategies used for multi-a...
IntroductionIn academia, many institutions use journal article publication productivity for making d...
Paper authorship and author placement have significant consequences for accountability and assignmen...
Many prior studies suggest that default alphabetical ordering of coauthors in economicsconfers dispr...
Prior investigations have offered contrasting results on a troubling question: whether the alphabeti...
Alphabetical ordering of author surnames in academic publishing: a detriment to teamwor
Alphabetical name order is the norm for joint publications in economics. However, alphabetical order...
Middle name initials are often used by people in contexts where intellectual performance matters. Gi...
Southern Economic Journal © 2005 Southern Economic AssociationWe observe a great deal of heterogenei...
We observe a great deal of heterogeneity in the manner in which author orderings are assigned both a...