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ArticleScientometrics2020

Getting a head start: turn-of-the-month submission effect for accepted papers in management journals.

Liang Meng, Haifeng Wang, Pengfei Han

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Article in Scientometrics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Liang MengSchool of Business and Management, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0470-7818
Haifeng WangSchool of Business and Management, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4967-7971
Pengfei HanSchool of Accounting, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing, China.
Shanghai International Studies University · CNNanjing University of Finance and Economics · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intriguing unforced regularities in human behaviors have been reported in varied research domains, including scientometrics. In this study we examine the manuscript submission behavior of researchers, with a focus on its monthly pattern. With a large and reliable dataset which records the submission history of articles published on 10 multidisciplinary journals and 10 management journals over a five-year period (2013-2017), we observe a prominent turn-of-the-month submission effect for accepted papers in management journals but not multidisciplinary journals. This effect gets more pronounced in submissions to top-tier journals and when the first day of a month happens to be a Saturday or Sunday. Sense of ceremony is proposed as a likely explanation of this effect, since the first day of a month is a fundamental temporal landmark which has a 'fresh start effect' on researchers. To conclude, an original and interesting day-of-the-month effect in the academia is reported in this study, which calls for more research attention.

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Management journalManuscript submissionSubmission dateTemporal landmarkTurn-of-the-month (ToM)Unforced regularity

Identifiers

PMID32836525
PMCPMC7316350
OpenAlexW3037290960

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