PUBLISHED, BUT PERISHED (UNREAD AND UNRECOGNIZED) ANYWAY. Alex at Marginal Revolution wonders how productive the academy's emphasis up to about 1996 on increased output of scholarly publications has been. Key paragraph:

David Laband and Robert Tollison find that a large fraction of economics papers (26%) are never cited and despite large increases in resources devoted to publication this percentage has not changed in decades.

On the other hand, perhaps the problem is that these papers haven't been published sufficiently many times. Newmark's Door discovers the champions: two papers that were published five times each.