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matthew effect
4 posts tagged matthew-effect.
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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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Same song, different universe: what a music experiment says about your citations
A 2006 music experiment ran the same songs through eight parallel worlds. The same track was a hit in one and a flop in another. Here is what that says about why some papers get cited and others vanish.
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It's not the Matthew effect. It's the Daniel effect.
Early success predicts later success — Merton called it the Matthew effect. Why AI doesn't level the field the way it appears to, and what to do about a cold start with no audience.
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LLMs sharpen the Matthew effect in citations
LLMs asked to suggest references favor already-highly-cited papers, reproducing the Matthew effect in citations. Treat the first references a model suggests as a starting list, not the final one.