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. …

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 … scrutiny. We discuss advantages and disadvantages of academic rankings, in particular their unintended negative consequences on …

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

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 …

success than theoretical studies. However, the pattern over time is very similar with yearly mean citations peaking after …