Does your surname affect the citability of your publications?

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Highlights：

• We analyze the 2001–2004 publications of 14467 scientists in the sciences.

• Differently from previous works, we normalize citations by field.

• We find no evidence of alphabetical advantage.

• We find no evidence of advantage for the top scientists either.

摘要

•We analyze the 2001–2004 publications of 14467 scientists in the sciences.•Differently from previous works, we normalize citations by field.•We find no evidence of alphabetical advantage.•We find no evidence of advantage for the top scientists either.

论文关键词：Alphabetical discrimination,Bibliometrics,Byline,Research evaluation

论文评审过程：Received 28 July 2016, Revised 6 December 2016, Accepted 6 December 2016, Available online 22 December 2016, Version of Record 22 December 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2016.12.003