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 …

) intensifies the competition: in particular, both top and mean realized scores increase. To tame incentives to provide excessively …

) intensifies the competition: in particular, both top and mean realized scores increase. To tame incentives to provide excessively …

academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be …

, past journal ratings conducted by the Handelsblatt and the German Economic Association (GEA) directly affect journals …' reputation among German economists and indirectly also their perceived relevance, but the effect on reputation is more than twice …