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, --- José Manuel Barrueco http://www.uv.es/=barrueco From: Jose Manuel Barrueco [mailto:Jose.Barrueco@uv.es] Sent: Thu 3/20/2008 6:38 PM To: Oswald, Andrew Cc: CitEc-Run Subject: Re: wage curve cites 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>
-- -- José Manuel Barrueco <barrueco@uv.es>