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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Rankings upon rankings – and no end in sight Discussion of “Quantitative and Qualitative Rankings of Scholars” by Rost and Frey |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | UZH Business Working Paper Series |
| Number | 378 |
| ISSN | 2296-0422 |
| Number of Pages | 20 |
| Date | 2011 |
| Abstract Text | Katja Rost and Bruno S. Frey address an important topic. They compare two kinds of rankings, a conventional allegedly "quantitative“ publication ranking, and a ranking based on the membership on editorial boards of academic journals, which they call "qualitative“. They find that the relation between the two rankings is not linear, but inversely u-shaped. Consequently, they argue that maximizing publication rankings may lead to a decline in research quality. Therefore, basing promotion decisions solely on publication rankings could be counterproductive for science and hence should be avoided. |
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| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:18176 |
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