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Drivers of research impact: evidence from the top three finance journals
Author(s) -
Dang Chongyu,
Li Zhichuan Frank
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
accounting and finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-629X
pISSN - 0810-5391
DOI - 10.1111/acfi.12350
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , presentation (obstetrics) , affect (linguistics) , quality (philosophy) , impact factor , psychology , political science , library science , computer science , medicine , law , epistemology , philosophy , communication , artificial intelligence , radiology
We study the characteristics of all published papers in the top three finance journals ( JF , JFE and RFS ), and how these paper characteristics affect the number of citations in Google Scholar and the Web of Science database. First, we find the characteristics in the universalist perspective remain constant while the characteristics in the constructivist and presentation perspectives increase over time. Second, some characteristics are significantly different between the high‐impact and the low‐impact papers. Third, paper quality, research method, journal placement and paper age are the most important drivers. Last, different drivers play different roles in different journals.