the taste for science by a taste for publication. We suggest as alternatives careful selection and socialization of …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 …

the "taste for science" by a "taste for publication". We suggest as alternatives careful selection and socialization of …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 …

behavior and develop counter strategies. Moreover, intrinsic work motivation is crowded out and undesired lock-in effects take …. Thirdly, there exist superior alternatives. They consist in careful selection and supportive process coaching - and then leave …

the research process. To counterbalance these negative consequences we suggest (a) rigorous selection and socialization …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 …

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

rather than in total. The changes in rankings are due to the relatively broad interest in applied microeconomics and economic …