The Game Academics Play: Editors Versus Authors

Joao Ricardo Faria

No 105, Working Paper Series from Finance Discipline Group, UTS Business School, University of Technology, Sydney

Abstract: This paper studies a differential game between authors and editors. Authors maximize the number of publications seeking to increase the impact of their work in the literature. Editors maximize the quality of papers they publish in order to increase the reputation of their journals. The game is suitable to analyze two different scenarios. When journals have different reputations, the editors of the leading journals play as leaders while authors are the followers. When journals have the same reputation, both agents play as followers. A numerical example shows that the outcome of the first case is Pareto-superior to the second whenever editor's put more emphasis on quality vis-a-vis reputation.

Keywords: journal publications; sociology of economics citation analyses; differential games (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A19 C79 L19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-06-01
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Published as: Faria, J. R., 2005, "The Game Academics Play: Editors Versus Authors", Bulletin of Economic Research, 57(1), 1-12.

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