Number of citations increases with paper length

I’m going to have to learn how to write faster:

In an analysis of 30,027 peer-reviewed papers published between 2000 and 2004 in top astronomy journals, astronomer Krzysztof Stanek of Ohio State University in Columbus found that the median number of citations increases with the length of the paper — from just 6 for papers of 2–3 pages to about 50 for 50-page papers

Posted on timeSeptember 18th, 2008 by userSimon Greenhill



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