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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …