Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Kóczy László Á. Author-Name: Nichifor Alexandru Author-Name: Strobel Martin Author-workplace-name: METEOR Title: Article length bias in journal rankings Abstract: The quality of publications, approximated by the containing journal''s quality indicator, is often the basis for hire and promotion in academic and research positions. Over the years a handful of ranking methods have been proposed. Discussing the most prominent methodswe show that they are inherently biased against journals publishing short papers. Keywords: Economics ; Series: Research Memoranda Creation-Date: 2009 Number: 016 File-URL: http://digitalarchive.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fedora/objects/guid:f6cc7782-720d-43c5-834d-79603a4e703e/datastreams/ASSET1/content File-Format: application/pdf File-Size: 269268 Handle: RePEc:unm:umamet:2009016