What is a Citation Worth?

1986/01/01 by Arthur M. Diamond Jr., Arthur M. Diamond · 9 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Citation #Computer science #Economics #Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis #Financial Reporting and Valuation Research #Labor market dynamics and wage inequality #Library science

paper · doi:10.2307/145797

openalex publication_date 1986/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/13

Abstract

A robust finding in all studies is that citations are a positive and significant determinant of earnings over almost all of the observed range of citation levels. The marginal value of a citation (when the level of citations is zero) varies between 50 and 1, 300. Some differences in marginal values may be due to differences in citation practices among disciplines while others may be due to differences among the studies in the control variables included in the salary regressions. Finally, no gain in explanatory power results from the inclusion in the salary regression of the costly nonfirst-author citation measure.

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