Birkmaier, Daniel; Wohlrabe, Klaus - In: Journal of Informetrics 8 (2014) 4, pp. 880-889
We apply the test of Ijiri and Simon (1974) to a large data set of authors in economics. This test has been used by Tol (2009, 2013a) to identify a (within-author) Matthew effect for authors based on citations. We show that the test is quite sensitive to its underlying assumptions and identifies...