Rankings have become increasingly important over the past decades and impose a sharp distinction between success and …-ranked competitors in the last two decades. These findings highlight a serious drawback of rankings. …

proposes a new empirical approach to evaluate the implications of rankings by analyzing a rich set of data on World Cup alpine … strategies after one-time successes. In sharp contrast to the growing literature on the positive effects of introducing rankings … among workers or students, we document novel empirical evidence for the potential drawbacks of rankings. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Rankings? by Dolado et al. . Specifically we focus on the robustness of the results regardless of the time span considered, the …. There are also significant but small differences if we combine datasets to derive the rankings. Finally, department rankings …

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