| Abstract: |
Researchers are accustomed to choose the beginning of the year as the starting
point to filter the recent literatures when they retrieve. This paper
considers that the custom described above will lead to the Influential Trap
which says that papers published at the year-end are less influential than
that published at the beginning of the year. Meanwhile, papers from Economic
Research Journal Issue 1 in 2000 to the Issue 12 in 2010 are using for an
empirical study. It shows that papers published at the beginning of the year
get more download and citations than which published at year-end
significantly, even if the chief editor did not arrange to publish the core
authors’ papers at the beginning of the year. |