publication statistics or competitive attention seeking strategies. The badly designed use of market principles in which citations …

: Monte Carlo evidence, and coercive journal self citations, impact factor, journal influence and article influence. …

citations. Three types of signals are examined: the author’s reputation (as producer of the idea), the journal (as the broker of …

Reuters ISI Web of Science (ISI) Category of Economics, using citations data from ISI and the highly accessible Research … of citations, are highlighted to show which RAMs are able to provide informational value relative to others. The RAMs … include the impact factor, mean citations and non-citations, journal policy, number of high quality papers, and journal …