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

Organizational structures are an important determinant of individual incentives and thus individual motivation in … organizations. We study whether their effects on individual motivation go beyond incentives and how they relate to the perceived …

, inferences change. Strategic selection of austerity measures allows scholars to arrive at any desired results about the economic …

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 …

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 …