Is who you know as important as what you know? Mapping the invisible colleges supporting academic prestige https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/10/09/is-who-you-know-as-important-as-what-you-know-mapping-the-invisible-colleges-supporting-academic-prestige/…
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.