揭示经济学引文偏倚：对中文论文的品味歧视

IF 2.2 2区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102725

Xiaoliang Yang , Peng Zhou

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摘要

我们提出了在经济引文中对中国第一作者的品味歧视的证据。我们利用引文引力模型，将这种偏见解释为“文化距离”的负面影响。在控制了质量以及作者、论文和期刊特定属性之后，第一作者为中国人的出版物的引用次数减少了14%。与非中国人合作并不能减轻这种歧视。隶属于美国的研究所，虽然通过抑制感知到的“中国性”，略微减少了偏见，但不足以抵消歧视效应。此外，新冠肺炎疫情加剧了歧视效应。法医分析将歧视来源缩小到非华裔、非美国机构的顶级经济学家。

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Unveiling citation bias in economics: Taste-based discrimination against Chinese-authored papers

We present evidence for taste-based discrimination against Chinese first authors in economic citations. We utilize a gravity model of citations and interpret the bias as a negative effect of “cultural distance”. After controlling for quality as well as author-, paper-, and journal-specific attributes, publications with a Chinese first author receive 14 % less citations. Coauthoring with non-Chinese does not mitigate the discrimination at all. While being affiliated with a US-based institute slightly reduces the bias by dampening the perceived “Chineseness”, it is not big enough to offset the discriminatory effect. Moreover, the COVID pandemic exacerbated the discriminatory effect. The forensic analysis narrowed down the source of discrimination to non-Chinese top economists from non-US affiliations.

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来源期刊

Labour Economics ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

3.60

自引率

8.30%

发文量

142

期刊介绍： Labour Economics is devoted to publishing research in the field of labour economics both on the microeconomic and on the macroeconomic level, in a balanced mix of theory, empirical testing and policy applications. It gives due recognition to analysis and explanation of institutional arrangements of national labour markets and the impact of these institutions on labour market outcomes.