29 March 2010. The paper  “The Peter principle revisited: a computational study”
by A. Pluchino, A. Rapisarda, C. Garofalo, Physica A 389 (2010) 467,
published in February  2010,  is already in the top list of “ hot papers”,
namely 5th, of Physica A, see link
http://elsevier.dmdelivery.com/x/?S7Y1_p9ra2L5v8jW0NDSxNIYAAr34.
This work has also received the attention, among other newspapers, of  the “New York Times” in December for the Ideas of the year 2009, see link
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/magazine/ideas/2009/#r-2,
as well as a dedicated article by the New Scientist, see link
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427392.600-why-your-boss-is-incompetent.html?full=true.