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Background. In scholarly publishing, time-looping is the practice of assigning papers that were online-published at a specific point in time to post-dated journal volumes/issues. Objectives. This study investigated to what extent time-looping was practiced by journals, and whether this practice was likely to have increased the journal citation metrics. The journals in Financial Times' list of top 50 business and economics journals (known as the FT50 list) were used as the sample.
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