Academics strive for citations, but there has been little work done to identify the determinants of citations, primarily due to a lack of usable data. This paper uses new data to confirm the intuition that reputation, documented research, collaboration, and signalling are important. However, the results shed new light on (and refute) some widely held conceptions about the effects of self-citation, author experience, editor biases, and gender equality.
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