Publikationen

Angrist, J., Diederichs, M., & Ellison, G. (2026). Will The University Endowment Tax Slow Scientific Progress? Evidence from Elite Economics PhD Programs (NBER Working Paper Series No. 35244). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w35244

Aun, A. (2026). Survey: Competition in Higher Education. Journal of Economic Surveys, [Online First], Article joes.70146. https://doi.org/10.1111/joes.70146

Aun, A., Cantner, U., Grashof, N., & Grebel, T. (2026). Relative Productivity of the French Higher Education Sector [Mimeo], FSU Jena, TU Ilmenau.

Buechele, S., Buenstorf, G., Fenkner, T., Hamann, J., Huegel, M., Koenig, J., & Serrano Velarde, K. (2026, forthcoming). One, two, many postdoctoral careers? Subjective and objective career perspectives in academia and beyond. Science and Public Policy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scag089

Buechele, S., Buenstorf, G., Huegel, M., Koenig, J., & Theissen, M. (2026). Is the dominance of graduates from top-tier universities among tenured faculty driven by prestige or output? Evidence from 50 years of university appointments in Germany. Research Policy, 55(3), Article 105411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2026.105411

Buschkamp, L., & Kosmützky, A. (2026, under review). The Construction of (Imagined) Competitive Groups of Universities within Multiple Competition [Mimeo].

Cantner, U., Dreier, L., Grashof, N., & Grebel, T. (2026). Funding Shocks and University Outcomes in the U.S.: Evidence from a Shift-Share Design [Mimeo], FSU Jena, TU Ilmenau.

Cantner, U., Dreier, L., Grashof, N., & Grebel, T. (2026). Multiple Beauty Contest of Universities – Gaps and catching-up [Mimeo], FSU Jena, TU Ilmenau.

Cantner, U., Dreier, L., Grashof, N., & Grebel, T. (2026). Varieties of Academic Competition: Selection Dynamics in Coordinated and Market-Oriented Higher Education Systems [Mimeo], FSU Jena, TU Ilmenau.

Cantner, U., Grashof, N., & Grebel, T. (2026). Exzellenzinitiative und multipler Wettbewerb im deutschen Universitätssektor [Mimeo], FSU Jena, TU Ilmenau.

Cantner, U., Grashof, N., & Grebel, T. (2026). Performance and feedback - on the selectivity of competition among universities [Mimeo], FSU Jena, TU Ilmenau.

Cantner, U., Grashof, N., Grebel, T., & Zhang, X. (2026). Performance, competition, and structural change in the university sector—The case of Germany. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 36(2), Article 39. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-026-00955-8

Cantner, U., Grashof, N., Grebel, T., & Zhang, X. (2026). Rethinking excellence: The impact of the Excellence Initiative on the relative productivity of German universities. Science and Public Policy, [Online First], Article scag048. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scag048

Cantner, U., Dreier, L., Goethner, M., Kalthaus, M., Tartari, V., & Woerter, M. (2026). Micro-processes in science-industry transfer. Industry and Innovation, [Online First], 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2026.2746393

Diederichs, M. (2026). Effects of Editorial Connections on Publications and Citations in Economics [Mimeo].

Diederichs, M., & Stahl, T. (2026). Multi-field and Interdisciplinary Research in Economics [Mimeo].

Frost, J., Overmeyer, L. P., & Hattke, F. (2026). Archetypes of organizational actorhood in multiple competitions. Studies in Higher Education, [Online First], 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2026.2614979

Gerhardt, L. M., & Oertel, S. (2026, under review). Classifying Academic Work: Organizational and Institutional Dynamics of Professorship Title Elaboration [Mimeo], Friedrich Schiller University Jena, University of Salzburg.

Gerhardt, L.-M., & Walgenbach, P. (2026). Translating Competition into Academic Roles: Professorship Job Advertisements in Germany, 1990–2020 [Mimeo], Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

Gotthard, D. (2026). Marginal effects for the stochastic actor-oriented model [Mimeo], University of Hamburg.

Gotthard, D. (2026). The Co-Evolution of Structural Equivalence and Behavior: Disentangling Indirect Selection and Influence [Mimeo], University of Hamburg.

Gotthardt, D., Meyer-Burgdorff, L., Kellermeier, O., Schöllhorn, T., & Oberg, A. (2026, accepted for publication). Competing over the same partners: Multidimensional dynamics of similarity in co-publication. In 15th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, Granada.

Götze, N., Kosmützky, A., Krücken, G., Seidenschnur, T., & Vogel, R. (2026). Multiple Competition? An Analysis of Thematic Research Clusters on Competition and Higher Education. Higher Education Quarterly, 80(1), Article e70105. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.70105

Götze, N., Lessky, F., Geppert, C., & Jefferson, A. E. (2026). The unity of research and teaching under threat: Does it matter for academics’ job satisfaction? Research in Comparative and International Education, 21(3), 341–362. https://doi.org/10.1177/17454999261456836

Grashof, N., & Graf, H. (2026). The Role of University Foundations in Shaping Regional Innovation Networks: Evidence for Europe [Mimeo].

Hamann, J. (2026). Soziale Ungleichheit in Wissenschaft und Hochschule. In A. K. Krüger, J.-F. Schrape, C. Schubert, & J. Schubert (Hrsg.), Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung. Eine Einführung in zentrale Konzepte und aktuelle Forschungsperspektiven (S. 181–198). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112245897-013

Koenig, J., & Otto, A. (2026). The postdoc paradox: causes and manifestations. European Journal of Higher Education, [Online First], 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2026.2718899

Kosmützky, A. (2026). Competition as a catalyst for collaboration: how German universities navigate the paradox of organizational research governance. Higher Education, [Online First]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-025-01616-8

Kosmützky, A. (2026, im Erscheinen). Missionen und Profile. In S. Maasen & H.-H. Grünberg (Hrsg.), Wissenschaft responsivieren. Eine Navigation durch Transfer und Dritte Leistungsdimension. Springer.

Kosmützky, A. (2026). Multiple Competition and the Ethics of the Sciences: Toward an Interdisciplinary Dialogue. In J. Hinrichsen, K. Bizer, C. Hönnige, C. Misselhorn, T. A. Reydon, & S. Schicktanz (Eds.), Ethics of the Sciences (pp. 81–102). Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-92-2821-8_4

Kosmützky, A., & Krücken, G. (2026). Clusterization of Research in Universities: An Emerging Model, Its Forms and Consequences. Minerva, [Online First]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-026-09645-y

Kosmützky, A., & Meier, F. (2026). Competing: An analytical framework and application in higher education. Studies in Higher Education, 51(1), 18–38. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2025.2455425

Kosmützky, A., & Meier, F. (2026, forthcoming). Competition in Higher Education as Myth and Form. Sociological Perspectives. In P. N. Teixeira & B. Sporn (Eds.), Competition in Higher Education.Edward Elgar.

Kosmützky, A., & Meier, F. (2026, im Erscheinen). Warum Wissenschaftler*innen sich an Forschungsverbünden beteiligen: Zwischen Eigeninteresse und überindividuellen Orientierungen. Das Hochschulwesen.

Kosmützky, A., & Schmid, R. B. (2026, im Erscheinen). Eine typologische Analyse des Wettbewerbsfeldes privater und staatlicher Wirtschaftshochschulen in Deutschland. Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung.

Meier, F. (2026, im Erscheinen). Skandinavistik – ein sogenanntes „Kleines Fach“ im multiplen Wettbewerb. Das Hochschulwesen.

Ozgun, B., Grashof, N., Graf, H., & Broekel, T. (2026). Authenticity or strategy? How universities communicate the Sustainable Development Goals. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 13(1), Article 740. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-026-07714-x

Seidenschnur, T. (2026). In Need of a Coalition of the Willing. How University Presidents Depend on Partners for Organisational Leadership. Journal of Organizational Sociology, [Online First], 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1515/joso-2025-0059

Snijders, T. A., Ripley, R. M., Boitmanis, K., Steglich, C., Koskinen, J., Niezink, N. M., Amati, V., Stadtfeld, C., Hollway, J., Block, P., Krause, R., Greenan, C., Lospinoso, J., Schweinberger, M., Huisman, M., Schoenenberger, F., Ortmann, M., Hoffman, M., Hellpap, R., . . . Gotthardt, D. (2026). RSiena: Siena - Simulation Investigation for Empirical Network Analysis (Version 1.6.6) [Software]. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RSiena/index.html

van Schalkwyk, F., & Kosmützky, A. (2026, under review). Eveyone can win? Analyzing university competition for publication-based government funding in South Africa [Mimeo].

Buenstorf, G., Hottenrott, H., Kosmützky, A., Krücken, G., Meier, F., Schaper, T., & Schimank, U. (2025). Analyzing Constellations of Multiple Competition in Science and Higher Education. Minerva, [Online First]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-025-09616-9

Buenstorf, G., Koenig, J., & Otto, A. (2025). Keeping up with the Max Plancks? Germany’s quest for university excellence and the role of public research institutes in doctoral education. Scientometrics, 130(1), 67–108. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05195-w

Döhler, M., Hönnige, C., Kosmützky, A., Ruffing, E., & Staff, H. (2025). The Variance of German University Governance: Exploring the Effects of Organizational Field Positions. Higher Education Policy, 38(1), 28–51. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-023-00332-1

Fenkner, T., & Gottschalk-Rayling, J. (2025). Surviving Science – Coping with Exit-Decisions in Physics and History. Minerva, 63(3), 449–469. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-024-09548-w

Grashof, N., & Graf, H. (2025). The role of universities in regional knowledge base renewal. Regional Studies, 59(1), Article 2521052. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2025.2521052

Hamann, J., & Stein, D. (2025). What is ‘high-risk research’? Comparing the social sciences and humanities and the natural sciences. Science and Public Policy, 52(1), 81–91. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scae062

Hamann, J., & Serrano Velarde, K. (2025). Academic socialization: On a neglected effect of competition in science. Higher Education, 90(2), 321–336. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01322-x

Koenig, J. (2025). Costs and benefits of a formal academic qualification beyond the PhD. Higher Education, 90(3), 613–647. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01338-3

Kosmützky, A., & Krücken, G. (2025). Konkurrenz und Kooperation in Hochschulen und Wissenschaft (LCSS Working Papers No. 20). Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB). https://doi.org/10.15488/18335

Krücken, G., Götze, N., & Seidenschnur, T. (2025). Lions, game players and niche providers: Universities' positioning in funding competitions in Germany. Higher Education Quarterly, 79(1), Article e70005. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.70005

Meier, F., Röß, A., & Schimank, U. (2025). Fächer. In W.-D. Webler (Hrsg.), Hochschulwesen - Wissenschaft und Praxis: Vol. 49. Entwicklung und Stand der Hochschulforschung in Deutschland. Hochschulen erforschen sich selbst – oder gerade auch nicht! (S. 171–200). UVW UniversitätsVerlagWebler.

Röß, A. (2025). Transdisziplinarität und Dritte Mission aus übersetzungstheoretischer Perspektive. In J. Dinkelaker & D. Wrana (Hrsg.), Vermittlungsverhältnisse. Vom Umgang mit Wissensdifferenzen (S. 125–150). transcript. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839472262-005

Schaper, T., Arts, S., & Veugelers, R. (2025). Not like the others: Frontier scientists for inventive performance. Research Policy, 54(10), 105339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2025.105339

Angrist, J., & Diederichs, M. (2024). Dissertation Paths: Advisors and Students in the Economics Research Production Function (NBER Working Paper Series No. 33281). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w33281

Bartsch, S., Buenstorf, G., & Theissen, M. (2024). Are employment trajectories of STEM doctoral degree holders gender specific? Evidence from a large German technical university. In C. Gross & S. Jaksztat (Eds.), Career paths inside and outside academia (= Soziale Welt. Special Edition 26) (pp. 89–129). Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748925590-89

Bloch, R., Mitterle, A., & Seidenschnur, T. (Eds.). (2024). How do universities compete? [Special issue]. Studies in Higher Education (Special Issue), 49(10). www.tandfonline.com/toc/cshe20/49/10

Bloch, R., Mitterle, A., & Seidenschnur, T. (2024). How do universities compete? Introduction to the special issue. Studies in Higher Education, 49(10), 1701–1709. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2024.2395418

Buschkamp, L., & Seidenschnur, T. (2024). Competition on hold? How competing discourses shape academic organisations in times of crisis. Higher Education, 88(2), 569–585. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-023-01130-9

Cantner, U., Doerr, P., Goethner, M., Huegel, M., & Kalthaus, M. (2024). A procedural perspective on academic spin-off creation: The changing relative importance of the academic and the commercial sphere. Small Business Economics, 62(4), 1555–1590. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-023-00815-w

Cantner, U., Grebel, T., & Zhang, X. (2024). The architecture of global knowledge production – do low-income countries get more involved? Industrial and Corporate Change, 33(5), 1298–1329. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtad042

Cantner, U., Kalthaus, M., & Yarullina, I. (2024). Outcomes of science-industry collaboration: factors and interdependencies. Journal of Technology Transfer, 49(2), 542–580. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-023-09999-5

Hamann, J. (2024). Meritokratie als Problem: Leistungsbezogene Bewertungen in Berufungsverfahren. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (KZfSS), 76(2), 119–143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-024-00954-2

Kosmützky, A., & Krücken, G. (2024). Governing Research. New Forms of Competition and Cooperation in Academia. In K. Sahlin-Andersson & U. Eriksson-Zetterquist (Eds.), Research in the Sociology of Organizations Series: Vol. 86. University Collegiality and the Erosion of Faculty Authority (pp. 31–57). Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20230000086002

Meier, F. (2024). Competition and valuation in science and higher education. In A. K. Krüger, T. Peetz, & H. Schaefer (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society (pp. 151–161). Routledge. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003229353-18/competition-valuation-science-higher-education-frank-meier

Meier, F. (2024). Fairer Wettbewerb in Sport und Wissenschaft. In R. Schmidt, D. Kempf, & M. Weigelin (Hrsg.), Leistungsvergleiche und evaluative Praktiken: Sport als instruktiver Fall der Soziologie der Bewertung (S. 241–264). https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839472361-010

Röß, A. (2024). Zur Situation der Geisteswissenschaften im forcierten Hochschulwettbewerb. In P. E. Fäßler & R. Pöppinghege (Hrsg.), Junge Hochschulen. Institutionen im Spannungsfeld von Tradition, Reformanspruch und Pragmatismus(S. 79–101).

Seidenschnur, T., Götze, N., & Krücken, G. (2024). Multiple roles of the state – federal states and their roles in how universities compete in Germany. Studies in Higher Education, 49(10), 1753–1762. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2024.2392660

Brankovic, J., Hamann, J., & Ringel, L. (2023). The institutionalization of rankings in higher education: continuities, interdependencies, engagement. Higher Education, 86(4), 719–731. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-023-01018-8

Cantner, U., Grashof, N., Grebel, T., Kosmützky, A., Krücken, G., & Zhang, X. (2023). Competitive positioning of German universities: Deliberate decision, fate, or fiction? (Jena Economic Research Papers 2023-012). https://hdl.handle.net/10419/283183

Cantner, U., Grashof, N., Grebel, T., & Zhang, X. (2023). When Excellence is not Excellent: The Impact of the Excellence Initiative on the Relative Productivity of German Universities(Munich Personal RePEc Archive No. 118139). mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/118139/

Götze, N., Krücken, G., & Seidenschnur, T. (2023). Multipler Wettbewerb – multiple Wettbewerbsakteure? Der staatliche Wettbewerb im Hochschulbereich und die Transformation von Bundesländern in Wettbewerbsakteure. In W.-D. Webler (Hrsg.), Hochschulwesen - Wissenschaft und Praxis: Vol. 43. Überzogener und überhitzter Wettbewerb in der Wissenschaft. Wissenschaftsförderung und ihre Irrwege (S. 41–62). UVW UniversitätsVerlagWebler.

Hamann, J. (2023). Field Theory Beyond the Nation State. In P. Mattei, X. Dumay, E. Mangez, & J. Behrend (Eds.), Oxford library of international social policy. The Oxford handbook of education and globalization (pp. 248–266). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197570685.013.37

Hamann, J. (2023). Qualität von Forschungsleistungen. In T. Betz, T. Feldhoff, P. Bauer, U. Schmidt, & B. Schmidt-Hertha (Eds.), Handbuch Qualität in pädagogischen Feldern: Diskurse. Theoretische Grundlagen. Empirische Beiträge. Kritische Einwürfe (pp. 1–17). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-40471-0_25-1

Hamann, J., & Ringel, L. (2023). The discursive resilience of university rankings. Higher Education, 86(4), 845–863. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-022-00990-x

Hamann, J., & Serrano Velarde, K. (2023). The Emergence of the Academic Candidate. Evaluation as textual dramaturgy. Valuation Studies, 10(1), 58–89. https://doi.org/10.3384/VS.2001-5992.2023.10.1.58-89

Hüther, O., & Schimank, U. (2023). Drittmittel im Wissenschaftssystem – Belohnungen, Ermöglichungen und Sekundärverwertungen. In W.-D. Webler (Hrsg.), Hochschulwesen - Wissenschaft und Praxis: Vol. 43. Überzogener und überhitzter Wettbewerb in der Wissenschaft. Wissenschaftsförderung und ihre Irrwege (S. 153–175). UVW UniversitätsVerlagWebler.

Kosmützky, A. (2023). Konkurrenz und Kooperation im Hochschul- und Wissenschaftssystem: Neue Formen und ihre Folgen. Handbuch Qualität in Studium, Lehre und Forschung(86), Artikel A 1.9.

Kosmützky, A., & Meier, F. (2023). Konkurrieren. Ein Beitrag zur Soziologie des Wettbewerbs. In Paula-Irene Villa (Ed.), Polarisierte Welten. Verhandlungen des 41. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2022. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS). 

Meier, F. (2023). The Agency of Scientific Disciplines. Historical Social Research, 48(3), 277–295. https://doi.org/10.12759/HSR.48.2023.34

Götze, N., Krücken, G., & Seidenschnur, T. (2022). Reflexionspfade von Ausschreibungswettbewerben. Die Exzellenzinitiative und der Qualitätspakt Lehre im Vergleich. Das Hochschulwesen, 70(1+2), 49–59.

Götze, N., & Schneijderberg, C. (2022). Metrical valorization of performance (MeVoP): The funding-induced vertical stratification and the construction of post-humboldtian research-teaching nexus in German higher education institutions. In F. Huang, T. Aarrevaara, & U. Teichler (Eds.), The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective: Vol. 23. Teaching and research in the knowledge-based society. Historical and comparative perspectives (pp. 53–76). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04439-7_4

Hamann, J. (2022). Zum Fremdeln zwischen Ethnografie und Hochschulforschung. In D. Meyer, J. Reuter, & O. Berli (Hrsg.), Science Studies. Ethnografie der Hochschule. Zur Erforschung universitärer Praxis (S. 39–58). transcript. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839457764-002

Hamann, J., Blome, F., & Kosmützky, A. (2022). Devices of evaluation: Institutionalization and impact—Introduction to the special issue. Research Evaluation, 31(4), 423–428. https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvac047

Hamann, J., & Kaltenbrunner, W. (2022). Biographical representation, from narrative to list: The evolution of curricula vitae in the humanities, 1950 to 2010. Research Evaluation, 31(4), 438–451. https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvab040

König, J. (2022). Postdoctoral employment and future non-academic career prospects. PloS One, 17(12), e0278091. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278091

Geissler, M., & König, J. (2021). ‘See you soon?!’ Mobility, competition and free-riding in decentralized higher education financing. Regional Studies, 55(4), 665–678. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2020.1851023

Gläser, J., Ash, M., Bünstorf, G., Hopf, D., Hubenschmid, L., Janßen, M., Laudel, G., Schimank, U., Stoll, M., Wilholt, T., Zechlin, L., & Lieb, K. (2021). The Independence of Research—A Review of Disciplinary Perspectives and Outline of Interdisciplinary Prospects. Minerva, 60(1), 105–138. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-021-09451-8

Krücken, G. (2021). Multiple competitions in higher education. A conceptual approach. Innovation: Organization and Management, 23(2), 163-181. https://doi.org/10.1080/14479338.2019.1684652

Krücken, G., Bünstorf, G., Cantner, U., Frost, J., Grebel, Thomas, Hamann, Julian, Hottenrott, H., Kosmützky, A., Meier, F., Schimank, U., & Serrano Velarde, K. (2021). Multipler Wettbewerb im Hochschulsystem – Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven und wissenschaftspolitische Implikationen. Das Hochschulwesen, 69(3+4), 90–95.