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People who criticize the study because it's based on students in one university don't understand that the study is also a meta level demonstration of the effect
by Nokinside 8y ago
People who criticize the study because it's based on students in one university don't understand that the study is also a meta level demonstration of the effect. They passed the peer review.
I'm in awe.
Other study from them:
Igou, E. R., & Van Tilburg, W. A. P. (2015). Ahead of others in the authorship order: Names with middle initials appear earlier in author lists of academic articles in psychology. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00469
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00469/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.0046...
- WhompingWindows 8y agoThere's a simple confounding reason for this. The earlier authors are in the author list, the more likely they are to be actively contributing. If there's a sparse contributor who doesn't respond, who has many papers already, or who is not actively involved in the final read-throughs, they will likely be somewhere in the middle of the author list and may miss that their middle initial is not correct. In contrast, if you are a first author, you will make damned sure your exact precise name is there, as your impact factor and future success hinges on the total number of papers you have.