IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/wpaper/halshs-00175384.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Une analyse économique des politiques d'incitation à la publication

Author

Listed:
  • Damien Besancenot

    (CEPN - Centre d'Economie de l'Université Paris Nord (ancienne affiliation) - UP13 - Université Paris 13 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Radu Vranceanu

    (ESSEC Business School)

Abstract

Cet article présente une formalisation élémentaire du "marché" des publications académiques dans uncontexte d'information incomplète sur la qualité des contributions de chaque auteur. L'offre d'articlesest présentée comme le résultat d'un jeu entre le responsable d'un centre de recherche et les membresde son équipe. La demande d'articles est présentée comme le résultat d'un processus de sélection pardes rapporteurs indépendants. La définition de l'équilibre du marché des publications permet d'étudierles conséquences d'une montée en puissance des incitations à la publication. Il apparaît que l'octroi deprimes généreuses pour la publication peut induire des conséquences indésirables : baisse de la qualitédes meilleures revues, déclin des performances éditoriales des meilleurs laboratoires, diminution de larémunération des meilleurs chercheurs.

Suggested Citation

  • Damien Besancenot & Radu Vranceanu, 2007. "Une analyse économique des politiques d'incitation à la publication," Working Papers halshs-00175384, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:wpaper:halshs-00175384
    Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00175384
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00175384/document
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Other versions of this item:

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. James E. Hartley & James W. Monks & Michael D. Robinson, 2001. "Economists' Publication Patterns," The American Economist, Sage Publications, vol. 45(1), pages 80-85, March.
    2. Ofer H. Azar, 2007. "The Slowdown In First‐Response Times Of Economics Journals: Can It Be Beneficial?," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 45(1), pages 179-187, January.
    3. repec:bla:jfinan:v:53:y:1998:i:1:p:351-363 is not listed on IDEAS
    4. Christiana E. Hilmer & Michael J. Hilmer, 2005. "How Do Journal Quality, Co-Authorship, and Author Order Affect Agricultural Economists' Salaries?," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 87(2), pages 509-523.
    5. Hodgson, Geoffrey M & Rothman, Harry, 1999. "The Editors and Authors of Economics Journals: A Case of Institutional Oligopoly?," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 109(453), pages 165-186, February.
    6. Glenn Ellison, 2002. "Evolving Standards for Academic Publishing: A q-r Theory," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 110(5), pages 994-1034, October.
    7. George A. Akerlof, 1970. "The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 84(3), pages 488-500.
    8. Henderson, Glenn Jr. & Ganesh, Gopala K. & Chandy, P. R., 1990. "Across-discipline journal awareness and evaluation: Implications for the promotion and tenure process," Journal of Economics and Business, Elsevier, vol. 42(4), pages 325-351, November.
    9. Stigler, George J & Stigler, Stephen M & Friedland, Claire, 1995. "The Journals of Economics," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 103(2), pages 331-359, April.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Besancenot, Damien & Vranceanu, Radu, 2008. "Can incentives for research harm research? A business schools' tale," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 37(3), pages 1248-1265, June.
    2. Damien Besancenot & Kim Huynh & Joao Faria, 2012. "Search and research: the influence of editorial boards on journals’ quality," Theory and Decision, Springer, vol. 73(4), pages 687-702, October.
    3. Hargreaves Heap, Shaun P. & Parikh, Ashok, 2005. "The diffusion of ideas in the academy: A quantitative illustration from economics," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 34(10), pages 1619-1632, December.
    4. Shaun P. Hargreaves-Heap & Ashok Parikh, 2002. "The Market Place for Ideas: An Analysis of Knowledge Diffusion in Academic Journals," WIDER Working Paper Series DP2002-71, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    5. Ofer Azar, 2003. "Rejections and the Importance of First Response Times (Or: How Many Rejections Do Others Receive?)," General Economics and Teaching 0309002, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Damien Besancenot & Kim Huynh & Radu Vranceanu, 2009. "The ‘Read or Write’ Dilemma in Academic Production: A Transatlantic Perspective," The American Economist, Sage Publications, vol. 53(1), pages 75-84, March.
    7. Ofer H. Azar, 2009. "The Influence Of Economics Articles On Business Research: Analysis Of Journals And Time Trends," Journal of Industrial Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 57(4), pages 851-869, December.
    8. Azar Ofer H., 2015. "A Model of the Academic Review Process with Informed Authors," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 15(2), pages 865-889, April.
    9. Fine, Ben, 2002. "Economics Imperialism and the New Development Economics as Kuhnian Paradigm Shift?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 30(12), pages 2057-2070, December.
    10. Justus Haucap & Johannes Muck, 2015. "What drives the relevance and reputation of economics journals? An update from a survey among economists," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 103(3), pages 849-877, June.
    11. Ofer H. Azar, 2006. "The Academic Review Process: How Can We Make it More Efficient?," The American Economist, Sage Publications, vol. 50(1), pages 37-50, March.
    12. John Gibson & David L. Anderson & John Tressler, 2017. "Citations Or Journal Quality: Which Is Rewarded More In The Academic Labor Market?," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 55(4), pages 1945-1965, October.
    13. Joseph S. Valacich & Mark A. Fuller & Christoph Schneider & Alan R. Dennis, 2006. "Issues and Opinions---Publication Opportunities in Premier Business Outlets: How Level Is the Playing Field?," Information Systems Research, INFORMS, vol. 17(2), pages 107-125, June.
    14. M. Fase, 2007. "Notes and Communications," De Economist, Springer, vol. 155(2), pages 221-238, June.
    15. Azar, Ofer H., 2008. "Evolution of social norms with heterogeneous preferences: A general model and an application to the academic review process," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 65(3-4), pages 420-435, March.
    16. Kocher, Martin G. & Luptacik, Mikulas & Sutter, Matthias, 2006. "Measuring productivity of research in economics: A cross-country study using DEA," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 40(4), pages 314-332, December.
    17. Bruno S. Frey & Katja Rost, 2010. "Do rankings reflect research quality?," Journal of Applied Economics, Universidad del CEMA, vol. 13, pages 1-38, May.
    18. Chris Doucouliagos & T.D. Stanley, 2013. "Are All Economic Facts Greatly Exaggerated? Theory Competition And Selectivity," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 27(2), pages 316-339, April.
    19. Kocher, Martin G & Sutter, Matthias, 2001. "The Institutional Concentration of Authors in Top Journals of Economics during the Last Two Decades," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 111(472), pages 405-421, June.
    20. Arjo Klamer & Hendrik van Dalen, 2001. "Attention and the art of scientific publishing," Journal of Economic Methodology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(3), pages 289-315.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hal:wpaper:halshs-00175384. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: CCSD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.