Publications, Contributions, and the Social Dilemma of Scholarly Productivity: A Reaction to Aguinis, Debruin, Cunningham, Hall, Culpepper, and Gottfredson (2010)

In their article What Does Not Kill You (Sometimes) Makes You Stronger: Productivity Fluctuations of Journal Editors, Aguinis et al. (2010) find that major journal editors publish fewer journal articles (for a while) after being editors. The real story in Aguinis et al. (2010) is how the academic community defines what constitutes productivity for a scholar. Aguinis et al.'s (2010) apparently narrow focus on publications as scholarly...