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Great Scientific Papers:

• Blinder, Alan S. (1974): The Economics of Brushing Teeth, Journal of Political Economy, 82(4), pp. 887-891 (HT: Juan Camilo Laborde Vera)

• Brandis, Royall (1972): An Irreverent Glossary, Journal of Economic Issues, 6(2/3), pp. 107-110

• Chambers, J. M./Herzberg, Agnes M.H. (1968): A Note on the Game of Refereeing, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), 17(3), pp. 260-263

• Chapman/Slade (2015): Rejection of rejection: a novel approach to overcoming barriers to publication, British Medical Journal, 351:h6326

• Covick, O.E (1974): The quantity theory of a drink - A restatement, Australian Economic Papers, 13(23), pp. 171–177

• Feinstein, Zachary (2015): It's a Trap: Emperor Palpatine's Poison Pill

• Gans, Joshua/Shepherd, George B. (1994): How Are the Mighty Fallen: Rejected Classic Articles by Leading Economists, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 8(1), pp. 165-179

• Gelman, Andrew (2010): "How many zombies do you know?" Using indirect survey methods to measure alien attacks and outbreaks of the undead, mimeo

• Glass, R.L. (2000): "A letter from the frustrated author of a journal paper", Journal of Systems and Software, 54(1), p. 1 (non-gated version)

• Goodman, Allen C. /Goodman, Joshua/Goodman, Lucas/Goodman, Sarena (2014): A Few Goodmen: Surname-Sharing Economist Coauthors, Economic Inquiry, 53(2), pp. 1392–1395

• Gregor W. Smith, (2008): Japan's Phillips Curve Looks Like Japan, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 40(6), pp. 1325-1326

• Heckman, James (2010): The Effect of Prayer on God's Attitude Toward Mankind, Economic Inquiry, 48(1), pp. 234-235

• Krugman, Paul (1978): A Theory of Interstellar Trade. mimeo

• Leijonhufvud, Axel (1973): Life Among the Econ, Western Economic Journal, 11(3), pp.327-337 (HT: Nathanael Vellekoop) 

and its follow-up:

Gans, Joshua (2023): Return to the Econ

• McAfee, R. Preston (1983): American Economic Growth and the Voyage of Columbus, American Economic Review, 73(4), pp. 735-740 (HT: Cesar Sosa-Padilla)

• McCulloch, J. Huston (1985): On Heteros*edasticity, Econometrica, 53(2), p. 483

• Messerli, Franz H. (2012): Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates,   New England Journal of Medicine, 367:1562-1564

• Oxoby, Robert (2008): On the efficiency of AC/DC: Bon Scott versus Brian Johnson, Economic Inquiry, 47(3), 598-602

• Polborn, Matthias (2001): Calibrating the world and the world of calibration, mimeo

• Schwarz, Martin A. (2008): The importance of stupidity in scientific research, Journal of Cell Science, 121(1771)

• Siegfried, John J. (1970): A First Lesson in Econometrics, Journal of Political Economy, 78(6), pp. 1378-1379

• Snower, Dennis (1982): Macroeconomic Policy and the Optimal Destruction of Vampires, Journal of Political Economy, 90(3), pp. 647-655

• Stigler, George (1977): The Conference Handbook, Journal of Political Economy, 85(2), pp. 441-443

• Upper, Dennis (1974): The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of Writer's Block, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 7(3), p. 497

• Westling, Tatu (2011): Male organ and economic growth: does size matter? mimeo

• Wright/Coudert/Bentley/Deville/Steel (2014): This Study is Intentionally Left Blank - A systematic literature review of blank pages in academic publishing