the “taste for science” by a “taste for publication”. We suggest as alternatives careful selection and socialization of …Research rankings based on publications and citations today dominate governance of academia. Yet they have unintended … scholars, supplemented by periodic self-evaluations and awards. Neither should rankings be a basis for the distributions of …

behavior and develop counter strategies. Moreover, intrinsic work motivation is crowded out and undesired lock-in effects take …. Thirdly, there exist superior alternatives. They consist in careful selection and supportive process coaching – and then leave …

the research process. To counterbalance these negative consequences we suggest (a) rigorous selection and socialization …Academic rankings today are the backbone of research governance, which seem to fit the aims of “new public management …” on the one side and the idea of the “republic of science” on the other side. Nevertheless rankings recently came under …

Auszeichnungen die intrinsische Motivation, können die Wohlfahrt erhöhen und sind steuerfrei. Auszeichnungen sind ein wichtiges …

as important determinants of scholarly behavior. We discuss whether a stronger emphasis on selection and socialization …Peer reviews and rankings today are the backbone of research governance, but recently came under scrutiny. They take … scholarly research is a mainly curiosity driven endeavor, we include intrinsic motivation and supportive feedback by the peers …

Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania …

frequently used for institutional comparisons or rankings. Diagnostically, they are used to assess the model assumptions at the …

Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries …, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure … research quality is considered. Even quantity rankings are not objective; two citation rankings, based on different samples …

encourage intrinsic work motivation and loyalty to the firm by strengthening distributive and procedural justice, and they …