An Alternative View of Citation Patterns of Quantitative Literature Cited by Business and Economic Researchers

The authors examine the distribution of elapsed time between published research papers and the literature they reference in quantitative business-oriented journals indexed by the <italic>Journal of Economic Literature</italic>. This distribution is better approximated by the generalized gamma distribution than by the exponential distribution. A ranking of journals based upon actual frequencies of article citations is also provided.

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Year of publication:	1996
Authors:	Tahai, Alireza ; Kelly, G. Wayne
Published in:	The Journal of Economic Education. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 0022-0485. - Vol. 27.1996, 3, p. 263-275
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis Journals

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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