Academic prestige: Why climb the greasy pole? Getting a job at a top university will not make you a better researcher
May 19, 2014 Leave a comment
Academic prestige: Why climb the greasy pole? Getting a job at a top university will not make you a better researcher
May 10th 2014 | From the print edition
MOST academics would view a post at an elite university like Oxford or Harvard as the crowning achievement of a career—bringing both accolades and access to better wine cellars. But scholars covet such places for reasons beyond glory and gastronomy. They believe perching on one of the topmost branches of the academic tree will also improve the quality of their work, by bringing them together with other geniuses with whom they can collaborate and who may help spark new ideas. This sounds plausible. Unfortunately, as Albert-Laszlo Barabasi of Northeastern University, in Boston (and also, it must be said, of Harvard), shows in a study published in Scientific Reports, it is not true. Read more of this post
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