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academic careers
14 posts tagged academic-careers.
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Is the 'world's top 2% scientists' list measuring merit or geography?
A 2025 Journal of Informetrics study of Stanford's 'World's Top 2% Scientists' list in legal studies finds it tracks a US postal code about as closely as it tracks merit.
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Is your hot streak also your most disruptive streak?
A 2025 study of 21,271 economists finds papers published during a researcher's hot streak are also more disruptive, and the boldest work tends to arrive years before the most-cited work.
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Small teams disrupt? Maybe it was never about size
A new arXiv preprint argues that collaboration synergy, not team size, drives disruptive science, revisiting the well-known 'small teams disrupt, large teams develop' finding.
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Is science really running out of disruption?
A 2026 Research Policy paper argues the famous 'science is becoming less disruptive' finding measures the wrong thing, especially in the social sciences.
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How Visibility Affects Grant Funding
Understand the direct link between research visibility and grants. Learn how review panels evaluate digital footprints to allocate funding.
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Why your biggest paper hasn't happened yet
The single biggest paper of a scientific career lands at a random point in it, and the only requirement is that you were still publishing when it arrived. Here is why that means you should not quit.
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The credit problem in team science
Teams produce most of the research impact, but one author takes most of the credit. If you are a middle author, the publication itself will not make your contribution visible. Here is what to do about it.
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Stop telling me what to do. Tell me what you want to know.
Most research-visibility work changes nothing. A six-year analysis that ended in one question, and how to tell which visibility tasks are worth doing.
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How academic careers actually work
Nobody trains you for the half of academic work that decides your career: making sure the right people know your work exists. Here is why that is a feature of the system, not a bug, and the fourth way to respond to it.
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Your worst blind spot is the thing you are best at
Your worst blind spot hides in the skill you are most expert at. A layoff, a Talmudic line about the beam in your own eye, and how to go looking for what you cannot see.
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She could've been Erdős-1, but she was shy
She turned down a paper with Paul Erdős because she was too shy. On the gender gap in self-promotion, why visibility is part of the job, and how to leave a trail without bragging.
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Why your acquaintances, not your closest friends, bring you the next opportunity
Granovetter's 'strength of weak ties': most useful job leads come from acquaintances you see rarely, not your closest circle. How to put yourself near the next opportunity.
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An Illustrated Guide to Academic Publishing
An illustrated story of how a paper is born — and why, among five million papers a year, most are read by almost no one. The problem is rarely quality; it is visibility.
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Where you debut probably decides where you stay
A network study of nearly 500,000 artists shows the first five exhibitions predict the next thirty. The same gatekeeper dynamics shape any institutional career — choose your first move carefully.