Changing Incentives to Publish and the Consequences for the Competitiveness of Countries
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
Corso Magenta 63
20123 Milan
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Video-conference
at FEEM Venice
h. 12.00 Seminar
h. 13.00 Light Lunch
Seminars Office, seminars@feem.it
Chiara Franzoni, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering (DIG), Politecnico di Milano
Abstract
We investigate how changes in incentives to publish implemented at the country level relate to the number of submissions, publications and acceptance rates to the journal Science for 30 OECD-monitored countries for the period 2000-2009. Country is determined by that of the first author. Our analysis shows that submissions correlate with incentives and cash bonuses elicit a particularly large increase in submissions. We find some indication that publications relate to career-based incentives and that acceptance rates relate to cash bonuses.