Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61<\/em>(2), 424-427.<\/p>\n\n\n\nR\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Since the publication of Robert K. Merton’s theory of cumulative advantage in science (Matthew Effect), several empirical studies have tried to measure its presence at the level of papers, individual researchers, institutions, or countries. However, these studies seldom control for the intrinsic \u201cquality\u201d of papers or of researchers\u2014\u201cbetter\u201d (however defined) papers or researchers could receive higher citation rates because they are indeed of better quality. Using an original method for controlling the intrinsic value of papers\u2014identical duplicate papers published in different journals with different impact factors\u2014this paper shows that the journal in which papers are published have a strong influence on their citation rates, as duplicate papers published in high\u2010impact journals obtain, on average, twice as many citations as their identical counterparts published in journals with lower impact factors. The intrinsic value of a paper is thus not the only reason a given paper gets cited or not, there is a specific Matthew Effect attached to journals and this gives to papers published there an added value over and above their intrinsic quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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