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I've never noticed a correlation between school prestige and paper citation in my field, of course that doesn't mean there isn't one. I'm curious if you have a

• ssivark 13y ago
  I've come across quite a bit of anecdotal evidence as blog posts (Damn it, can't find the links now) and scientists will often confess to being biased about prestige while reading articles. It's also probably the reason why mathematical papers do not print author affiliations at the front of the paper (they are listed at the back). It's simply a matter of choosing where to invest your scarce time. A paper from prestigious authors/affiliation presumably has a better chance of being worth your time. So such papers get more attention and hence more citations, even if they might not have been the most novel or the most comprehensive. The same also applies to papers in high impact factor journals where citations have some kind of a positive feedback loop.
• ryguytilidie 13y ago
  It's just anecdotal, but it is a lot of anecdotes. Both of my parents are professors, one at a much more prestigious school than the other. I've worked for a regular publisher, an academic publisher and I went to graduate school myself, so I've had a chat about this exact situation many times, though I admit I have no hard data.