[RAS] wage curve cites (fwd)

Christian Zimmermann christian.zimmermann at uconn.edu
Thu Apr 3 07:49:58 EDT 2008


I am not sure it a good idea to impose a match on dates. Say the citation 
is for an article, but RePEc only has an earlier working paper version. 
Why should that citation be denied?

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Jose Manuel Barrueco wrote:

>
> 	No sure if you see this case. This author used RAS to find citations. 
> He had several documents with the same title but different document type and, 
> more important, different publication dates. He associated the wrong 
> documents. I think it is very important that RAS checks the publication date 
> of citing and cited documents before to accept an association and it should 
> not allow association when both dates doesn't match. Regards,
>
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> José Manuel Barrueco				http://www.uv.es/=barrueco
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> From: Jose Manuel Barrueco [mailto:Jose.Barrueco at uv.es]
> Sent: Thu 3/20/2008 6:38 PM
> To: Oswald, Andrew
> Cc: CitEc-Run
> Subject: Re: wage curve cites
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> Dear Andrew, sorry by the delay in dealing with your mail. I've been
> investigating this issue and from the RAS logs the conclusion is that
> you have used the RePEc Author Service (RAS) to claim citations to
> your works:
>
> RePEc:bla:scandj:v:92:y:1990:i:2:p:215-35
> RePEc:nbr:nberwo:3181
> RePEc:mtp:titles:026202375x
>
> which have the same title but different document type (book, article
> and working paper). The problem is that you have done the wrong
> associations. The most part of cites go to the scandj article while
> you have associate them with the mtp book. The solution is for you to
> go back to RAS and correct the associations. Many thanks for your
> attention,
>
>
>> Dear Jose: Sorry. There are 2 publications. One is an article. The
> other is a book. They are very different even though they have the
> same title. Citations are roughly the same in number to each. Best
> regards, Andrew
>> 
>> Andrew J Oswald
>> Professor of Economics
>> ESRC Professorial Fellow
>> Website:
> http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/oswald
> <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/oswald>
>> 
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> José Manuel Barrueco                   <barrueco at uv.es>
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