; publication ; journals ; incentives ; economic methodology …Academic economists today are caught in a "Publication Impossibility Theorem Systemʺ 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 …

Updating the study by Seiler and Wohlrabe (2013) we use archetypoid analysis to classify top economists. The approach … from 776 top economists we identify four archetypoids. These types represent solid, low, top and diligent performer. Each …

We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in "high" and "low …

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

have been either less successful or less eager to publish their research in internationally well renown journals with high …

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 …

in decision-making. We discuss the primary barrier that prevents academic economists from contributing to longtermist … research: an overly rigid preference for methodological "hardness" (Akerlof, 2020). Hardness bias prevents economists from … longtermist research. We unpack hardness bias, discuss its roots, illustrate how it prevents economists from engaging in …

eligible scientists’ choice of publication outlet. We find that even in the short period following the conclusion of these DEAL … agreements, publication patterns in the field of chemistry have changed, as eligible researchers have increased their … publications in Wiley and Springer Nature journals at the cost of other journals. From that two related competition concerns emerge …