Academic in-group bias: An empirical examination of the link between author and journal affiliation

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Highlights：

• This paper provides evidence regarding academic in-group bias.

• Articles written by in-group authors receive 18% to 49% fewer Web of Science citations when published in their home journal.

• Our results are mainly based on a sample of four International Relations journals.

• These results are mainly driven by authors who received their PhDs from Harvard or MIT.

摘要

•This paper provides evidence regarding academic in-group bias.•Articles written by in-group authors receive 18% to 49% fewer Web of Science citations when published in their home journal.•Our results are mainly based on a sample of four International Relations journals.•These results are mainly driven by authors who received their PhDs from Harvard or MIT.

论文关键词：In-group bias,Citation counts,Author affiliation,Journal affiliation

论文评审过程：Received 9 July 2017, Revised 22 November 2017, Accepted 22 November 2017, Available online 1 December 2017, Version of Record 1 December 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2017.11.006