The citation success : evidence from economic history journal publications

This study analyses determinants of citation success among authors publishing in eco-nomic history journals. Bibliometric features, like article length and number of au-thors, are positively correlated with the citation rate up to a certain point. Remarkably, publishing in top-ranked journals hardly affects citations. In regard to author-specific characteristics, male authors, full professors and authors working economics or his-tory departments, and authors employed in Anglo-Saxon countries, are more likely to get cited than others. As a ‗shortcut‘ to citation success, we find that research diffu-sion, measured by number of presentations and people mentioned in acknowledge-ment, boosts the citation rate. -- Bibliometrics ; Citation Analysis ; Citation Success ; Economic History ; Scientometrics ; Poisson Regression