Citations are the most important part of research works and very helpful in finding the original sources of the cited works. The present study was conducted to analyze the citation styles. More specifically, we find that an increase in this variable is associated with a 2.8 to 8.9% boost in the salaries of college and university faculty. Using data from three separate state university systems, we find that this variable is indeed positively and significantly related to a scholar’s pay, at least in the case of research-oriented higher education institutions.
This variable is then included in an earnings equation, wherein it is expected to be positively related to a scholar’s real academic pay. This study introduces a straightforward approach to calculate the marginal impact of an academic publication on total citations to a scholar’s research portfolio. As such, it is essential that compensation in academe is geared toward incentivizing the production of impactful research. Another is that a relatively high rate of citations to a scholar’s work points toward an impressive career in academe, reflecting one’s contributions to society in that part of one’s career spent engaging in research endeavors. In the academy, such judgments are rendered about tenure, salary, and hiring for positions above the entry level. An important one is that members of the academy operate essentially as independent contractors, and in such cases the quality of their work must be evaluated. There are good reasons for why academicians should care about citations to scholarly articles.
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