Academic economists today are caught in a "Publication Impossibility Theorem System" or PITS. To further their careers … in such journals. Such academic competition is held to provide the right incentives for hard work, but there may be …, they are required to publish in A-journals, but this is impossible for the vast majority because there are few slots open …

tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of Hirsch's index that emphasize smaller numbers of highly-cited papers … perform better than Hirsch's original index and have substantial power to explain which economists are tenured at which …

Economists, and also economic research institutes, differ in their attitudes towards desirability of economic policies …

for academic economists over the period 1991-2008 we find that, conditional on entering the competition, there is no …

Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries … indicator, based on membership on academic editorial boards of professional journals. It turns out that especially the ranking …

efficiency gains by introducing incentives that reward information sharing, even where those incentives drive a wedge between …