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In academia, citations received by articles are a critical metric for measuring research impact. An important aspect of publishing in academia is the ability of the authors to navigate the review process, and despite its critical role, very little is known about how the review process may impact the research impact of an article. We propose that characteristics of the review process, namely, number of revisions and time with authors during review, will influence the article’s research impact, post-publication. We also explore the moderating role of the authors’ social status on the relationship between the review process and the article’s success. We use a unique data set of 434 articles published in Marketing Science to test our propositions. After controlling for a host of factors, we find broad support for our propositions. We develop critical insights for researchers and academic administrators based on our findings.

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Notes

  1. Data was available in days, but we used months for ease of representation of the scale of the coefficients.

  2. The results from this robustness analysis are available upon request.

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  1. Department of Marketing, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, 1309 E Tenth Street, Rm. HH 2119, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA

    Girish Mallapragada

  2. Fox School of Business, Temple University, Alter Hall 554, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, USA

    Nandini Lahiri

  3. Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Kenan-Flagler Business School, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #3490, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-3490, USA

    Atul Nerkar

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Mallapragada, G., Lahiri, N. & Nerkar, A. Peer Review and Research Impact. Cust. Need. and Solut. 3, 29–41 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40547-015-0060-1

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