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 …

Academic economists today are caught in a "Publication Impossibility Theorem System" or PITS. In order to further their … careers, they are required to publish in A-journals, but for the vast majority this is impossible because there are few slots … open for them in such journals. Such academic competition maybe useful to generate hard work; however, there may be serious …

Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish in A-journals, the main role of which consists in certifying … and incentives to deviate from the truth. The overburdended reviewers' evaluations are characterized by selfish efforts to …

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 …' and inadequate organizational forms for modern research. Academia, in a broader sense understood as 'the locus of seeking …

This paper employs a unique dataset on articles, authors and editors of the top general interest journals in economics … to investigate the role of social connections in the publication process. Ties between editors and authors are identified … increase in their publication outcomes when this editor is in charge of a journal. The analysis of articles' citations suggests …

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 …", and inadequate organizational forms for modern research. Academia, in a broader sense understood as "the locus of seeking …

The process by which scholarly papers are selected for publication in a journal is faced with serious problems. The …