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| Author: | Praag, C.M. van Praag, B.M.S. van |
| Title: | The benefits of being economics professor A (rather than Z) |
| Journal: | Economica
2008 : NOV, VOL. 75:300, p. 782-796 |
| Index terms: | economics research periodicals publishing industry |
| Freeterms: | professors alphabetizing |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Ordering of names by alphabet on multi-authored academic papers is to the advantage of people with last name initials placed early in the alphabet. Professor A, who has been a first author more often than Professor Z, will have published more articles and experienced a faster productivity rate over the course of his/her career as a result of reputation and visibility. It is known by authors that name ordering matters and hence the ordering is taken seriously. Several characteristics of an author-group composition determine the decision to depart from the default alphabetical name order to a significant extent. |
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