Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … also render teams' identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a …

considerations can be used in evaluations of university departments in order to render the resulting rankings insensitive to the age …

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 …

Peer reviews and rankings today are the backbone of research governance, but recently came under scrutiny. They take … offers an alternative to the present regime of academic rankings. …

Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania …, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of 'university …

. Specifically, the focus is on RePEc's main author ranking, which aggregates 36 different rankings based on a range of criteria. The … average age is 60, with over 21% of them aged 70 or above. The paper next discusses the aggregation of the 36 rankings using …

Academic economists today are caught in a Publication Impossibility Theorem System" or PITS. To further their careers …