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Fantasy Journals
Carl Bergstrom has a good idea, fantasy journals. A fantasy journal is a virtual collection of articles from other journals. As with fantasy baseball or football the fun part is when fantasy journals compete with one another based upon a common ranking system such as citation counts. Care to go head to head with Steve Levitt (JPE), Robert Moffit (AER) or Ed Glaeser (QJE)?
Prufer and Zetland take the idea one step further, how about auctioning papers and paying editors and referees based on future citations?
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on August 23, 2007 at 07:18 AM in Economics, Education | Permalink
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conformity of thought and strengthening of the status quo power structure will follow.
Posted by: samson at Aug 23, 2007 7:27:37 AM
I think fantasy econ department would be a closer analogy. Draft economists. Instead of positions on your team, you'd have fields of economics. Points would be based on quality and quantity of journal publications. Citations could be a measure of quality. The fantasy team with the most points wins.
Sadly, I think I am the only person I know that would actually be willing to play this game.
Posted by: Scott W at Aug 23, 2007 8:09:24 AM
The other problem is that pretty much any collection of surveys could beat any AER or JPE issue, given how much more surveys are cited that the average paper. Surely, citation count is only relevant when combined with other, non-quantitative data about a given article.
Posted by: cure at Aug 23, 2007 9:18:00 AM
I would love to see a dynamic fantasy newspaper.
Posted by: AO at Aug 23, 2007 11:12:59 AM
"Prufer and Zetland take the idea one step further, how about auctioning papers and paying editors and referees based on future citations?"
Would it really benefit academia to have the same incentive structure as the rest of the media?
Posted by: Ryan at Aug 23, 2007 1:00:15 PM
You really need to get a life!
Posted by: hukamoose at Aug 23, 2007 3:20:18 PM
Congratulations on finding something even dorkier than fantasy sports.
Posted by: Jacqueline at Aug 23, 2007 5:12:12 PM
Something tells me it's the pace at which events are generated in sports that makes it so alluring. Plus you can view events unfold on telly. + the amount of selection. Could go on...
Posted by: lokidd at Aug 23, 2007 5:51:46 PM
So how would this be different from putting all your favorite songs on your mp3 player?
Posted by: Robert Speirs at Aug 24, 2007 7:58:06 AM
One (self-centered) comment: We mention in our paper that an auction market -- by putting all papers into a central market -- facilitates fantasy journal issues: The fantasy editor only needs outbid everyone else for a set of papers he wants in the special issue.
Posted by: David Zetland at Aug 24, 2007 7:24:11 PM
One (self-centered) comment: We mention in our paper that an auction market -- by putting all papers into a central market -- facilitates fantasy journal issues: The fantasy editor only needs outbid everyone else for a set of papers he wants in the special issue.
Posted by: David Zetland at Aug 24, 2007 7:26:13 PM
This is a great idea! As an avid fantasy football player, I know how engaging this process can be.
I see another application: Science Fairs. Award a special prize to the student with the best
fantasy science fair team. Randomly assign all the student participants in a science fair a set of
ten science fair projects, each one listed on a separate index card. Students are free trade them
with one another. After the final judges have issued their decisions, the student with the
highest ranking "team" wins a special prize.
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