The academic Great Gatsby Curve.
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Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 39139034.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1098/rsif.2024.0173 and PMC identifier 11322743.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
The Great Gatsby Curve measures the relationship between income inequality and intergenerational income persistence. By using genealogical data of over 245 000 mentor-mentee pairs and their academic publications from 22 different disciplines, this study demonstrates that an academic Great Gatsby Curve exists as well, in the form of a positive correlation between academic impact inequality and the persistence of impact across academic generations. We also provide a detailed breakdown of academic persistence, showing that the correlation between the impact of mentors and that of their mentees has increased over time, indicating an overall decrease in academic intergenerational mobility. We analyse such persistence across a variety of dimensions, including mentorship types, gender and institutional prestige.
Medical subject headings
- Mentors