1 论文标题
Do ABCs Get More Citations than XYZs?
2 作者信息
黄炜
3 出处和链接（比如，NBER working paper No.11000）
没有出处，现在在Economic Inquiry上第二轮Revise and Resubmit
黑体是我新加的内容

4 摘要

Using a sample of US-based scientific journal articles, I examine the relationship between author surname initials and paper citations, finding that the papers with first authors whose surname initials appear earlier in the alphabet get more citations, and that this effect does not exist for non-first authors. Further analysis shows that the alphabetical order effect is stronger in those fields with longer reference lists, and that such alphabetical bias exists among citations by others and not for self-citations. In addition, estimates also show that the alphabetical order effect is stronger when the length of reference lists in citing papers is longer. These results suggest that the order in reference lists potentially
plays an important role in the alphabetical bias.
JEL codes: D0, O3, Z1