The article develops a model of nonmarket allocation of resources such as the awarding of
grants to meritorious projects, honors to outstanding students, or journal slots to quality …

We assess the impact of mandating data-sharing in economics journals on two dimensions
of research credibility: statistical significance and excess statistical significance (ESS). ESS …

Open access (OA) publishing has created new academic and economic niches in
contemporary science. OA journals offer numerous publication outlets with varying editorial …

While “publish or perish” has been an integral part of academic research in Western
countries for several decades, the phenomenon has made its way to Central and Eastern …

Using a database of recent articles published in the field of Global Health research, we
examine institutional sources of stratification in publishing access outcomes. Traditionally …

Incentives for priority of discovery are hypothesized to harm scientific reliability. Here, we
evaluate this hypothesis by developing an evolutionary agent-based model of a competitive …

The increasing number of journals makes it difficult to decide the right venue for manuscript
submission. This becomes more complicated as the selection criteria may vary from one …

Academic journals provide a key quality-control mechanism in science. Yet, information
asymmetries and conflicts of interests incentivize scientists to deceive journals about the …

Double-blind peer review is a central feature of the editorial model of most journals in
sociology and neighboring social scientific fields, yet there is little history of how and when …

As large amounts of data become available and can be communicated more easily and
processed more effectively, information has come to play a central role for economic activity …