Mentorship and Protégé Success in STEM Fields

Volume: 117, Issue: 25, Pages: 14077 - 14083
Published: Jun 23, 2020
Abstract
Einstein believed that mentors are especially influential in a protege's intellectual development, yet the link between mentorship and protege success remains a mystery. We marshaled genealogical data on nearly 40,000 scientists who published 1,167,518 papers in biomedicine, chemistry, math, or physics between 1960 and 2017 to investigate the relationship between mentorship and protege achievement. In our data, we find groupings of mentors with...
Paper Details
Title
Mentorship and Protégé Success in STEM Fields
Published Date
Jun 23, 2020
Volume
117
Issue
25
Pages
14077 - 14083
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