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“Invisible colleges” is an interesting (and unnerving) new term to discover.
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Is who you know as important as what you know? Mapping the invisible colleges supporting academic prestige blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial
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That was vague and the graphs were unhelpful, but I think I get what they’re talking about. If you backtracked phd advisors of authors from all papers on a topic in any field you’d get a small cluster. That’s just how research grows. The social justice stuff feels bolted on.
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Yes, it’s highly visible. I was told in a faculty job search seminar that 90% of faculty positions go to phds from the top 10 in the field. It’s sort of inevitable. Preferential attachment etc. Investment returns (VC firms) get institutionalized that way too.