Prestige drives epistemic inequality in the diffusion of scientific ideas Allison C. Morgan,1, ∗ Dimitrios Economou,1, † Samuel F. Way,1, ‡ and Aaron Clauset1, 2, 3, § 1 Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA 2 BioFrontiers...
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Prestige drives epistemic inequality in the diffusion of scientific ideas Allison C. Morgan,1, ∗ Dimitrios Economou,1, † Samuel F. Way,1, ‡ and Aaron Clauset1, 2, 3, § 1 Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA 2 BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA 3 Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA The spread of ideas in the scientific community is often viewed as a competition, in which good ideas spread further because of greater intrinsic fitness. As a result, it is commonly believed that publication venue and citation counts correlate with importance and impact. However, relatively little is known about how structural factors influence the spread of ideas, and specifically how where an idea originates can influence how it spreads. Here, we investigate the role of faculty hiring networks, which embody the set of researcher transitions from doctoral to faculty institutions, in shaping the spread of ideas in computer science, and the i
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