Arbeitspapier

Emergent phenomena in scientific publishing: A simulation exercise

We model the academic production process understood as the creation, submission, evaluation and publication of papers: scientists produce manuscripts to the best of their abilities and try to publish them in academic journals, which rely on referees to judge the submissions. The resulting model is able to reproduce several properties of the journal-landscape but also illustrates that even under unrealistically optimistic assumptions the process of scientific publishing will give rise to several universal emergent phenomena for purely mathematical reasons: the efficiency of scientific publishing is delicate and very unstable.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ICAE Working Paper Series ; No. 66

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Citation metrics
simulation
reviewing
manuscript quality
submission behavior

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kapeller, Jakob
Steinerberger, Stefan
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy (ICAE)
(wo)
Linz
(wann)
2017

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Kapeller, Jakob
  • Steinerberger, Stefan
  • Johannes Kepler University Linz, Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy (ICAE)

Entstanden

  • 2017

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