Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2010
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 …