The paper investigates the publishing behavior of economics’ scholars. Promotion committees relying heavily on publication metrics cause publication pressure and subsequent strategic adaptions. The subjectively perceived publication pressure is heavily dependent on the academic rank and reaches its maximum at the assistant professors without tenure. Furthermore, academics’ journal selection strategy and resilience concerning rejections are investigated. Unexpectedly, scholars at German “Excellence Universities” compared to other universities in German-speaking countries do not feel more burdened by the «publish or perish» need, nor do they differ with respect to their journal submission strategy and the resilience to having papers rejected.