bq. This commentary demonstrates that Avner Greif, through his citation practices, has denied Janet Landa her full intellectual property rights with respect to her contributions to the economic analysis of trust and identity. He has done so by systematically failing to cite her published papers in this field, incidentally promoting his own publications as meriting priority. In consequence, he has effectively blocked out Janet Landa’s work from the mainstream economics literature, albeit not from the literature of law and economics, where his own writings have not been directed.
Apropos of my post on citation bias comes this new paper by C.K. Rowley (gated; ungated). I know nothing of this literature and cannot evaluate Rowley’s argument. I simply note that I have rarely seen such an argument made.
Here are related webpages for each party: Rowley, Greif, and Landa. Here is more about another dispute involving Greif’s work.