Researchers, who start in small groups, are more likely to adhere to academic circles more than that trainer in large groups, as the analysis shows. Credit: Daniel Monoz/AFP/Getty
Post -PhD students, graduate students and other novice scientists in large research groups of academic circles are more than their peers in smaller groups, according to a new study of more than a million researchers early.
But the analysis also found that researchers who were trained in large groups remain in academic circles have achieved greater professional success. The work was published in the two in The nature of human behaviorAmid a mass migration of scientists from the academic circles and mental health crisis among doctorate students.
Roberta Sinatra, the co -author, the author participating at the University of Copenhagen, says the results are consistent with previous anecdotal studies and survey results, but this is the first attempt to measure the effects of different types of scientific guidance.
“I hope this will help in directing doctoral students options,” she says.
Foot and infiltrated
Sinatra and its team analyzed the academic counseling networks using two data groups: the academic family tree obtained from the crowd, which includes international records for scientists, their advisors and students in more than 50 academic fields, and an Openalex research book, which features records of authors, their coins, institutions and consultations. The final data collection included about 1.5 million worlds and 1.8 million guidelines in chemistry, physics and neuroscience. These fields had enough long -term data for authors analysis and are widely represented on Tree Family.
The results showed that the percentage of researchers who are still in science for at least ten years is less for those who have been trained in large groups of those trained in small groups (see “Survival feature”). Between the 1980s and 1995, for example, the “survival rate” was 38-48 % of their counterparts in the small group.
However, large group scientists publish papers rising on an indicator that measures the average cite annually, and they are likely to be classified among the most martyred scientists.
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To understand the reason for the success of some large reserves, the authors of the study examined the papers in which one of the first authors and their teacher was the last author-indicated that the trainee had received great attention from his teacher. The paper says that the great scientists who survived the academic circles have published a “significantly” of these first authors than the dropouts.
“Now we also have quantitative evidence that attention is important,” says Sinatra. “It is not just speculation.”