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Written by Per Vognsen on 2025-01-15 at 01:25

I wonder if having a last name with an initial letter near the start of the alphabet correlates more highly with academic success because of people assuming the author list of a paper was ordered by contribution (e.g. student first, professor last) in cases where it was ordered alphabetically.

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Written by Hovav Shacham on 2025-01-15 at 01:50

@pervognsen Supposedly, yes:

We suspect the “alphabetical discrimination” reported in this paper is linked to the norm in the economics profession prescribing alphabetical ordering of credits on coauthored publications. As a test, we replicate our analysis for faculty in the top 35 U.S. psychology departments, for which coauthorships are not normatively ordered alphabetically. We find no relationship between alphabetical placement and tenure status in psychology

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