Publications in high quality journals often serve to indicate research productivity. However, many top-rated journals infrequently publish cross-disciplinary topics such as healthcare financial management (HFM). So HFM researchers find it challenging to demonstrate the quality of their work....

A key objective of relative performance rankings in healthcare organizations is to motivate physicians to improve the quality of care. Causal evidence regarding the effect of rankings and their design on the effort of physicians, however, is still lacking. We study different ranking schemes...