Anchoring effects in the assessment of papers: The proposal for an empirical survey of citing authors

• Lutz Bornmann ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bornmann@gv.mpg.de

  Affiliation Science Policy and Strategy Department, Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society, Munich, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0810-7091

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• Christian Ganser,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Alexander Tekles

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Science Policy and Strategy Department, Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society, Munich, Germany, Department of Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Munich, Germany

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