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Academia is not a meritocracy

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  • Alon Zivony

    (Birkbeck, University of London)

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Evaluating PhD students by their publications may have the outward appearance of a meritocracy, but as long as students from minority groups do not enjoy the same privileges as their peers, the playing field is anything but level, argues Alon Zivony.

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  • Alon Zivony, 2019. "Academia is not a meritocracy," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 3(10), pages 1037-1037, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nathum:v:3:y:2019:i:10:d:10.1038_s41562-019-0735-y
    DOI: 10.1038/s41562-019-0735-y
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    1. Shannon Mason & Yusuke Sakurai, 2021. "A ResearchGate-way to an international academic community?," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 126(2), pages 1149-1171, February.
    2. Juliano Morimoto, 2022. "Intersectionality of social and philosophical frameworks with technology: could ethical AI restore equality of opportunities in academia?," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 9(1), pages 1-10, December.

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