Is there a trade-off between domestic and international publications?

This paper examines how a reputation-seeking academic economist allocates his time between research and nonresearch activities to publish papers in domestic and international journals. In equilibrium there is a trade-off between domestic and international publications. One implication is that the observed differences in academic productivity between American and European economists reflected by rankings can be misleading. The model allows for the existence of productive and efficient scholars even when their names do not appear in the rankings. The reason is that some scholars are publishing in domestic rather than in international journals, in accordance with the incentives in their home countries.