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The role of mentorship in protégé performance

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  • R. Dean Malmgren

    (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
    Datascope Analytics, Evanston, Illinois 60201, USA)

  • Julio M. Ottino

    (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
    Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA)

  • Luís A. Nunes Amaral

    (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
    Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA)

Abstract

Mathematical mentors: leading by example It is clear that mentors, in academia and elsewhere, influence the future success of their protégés, but it is unclear to what extent they influence future mentorship skills and career choices of their protégés. The records of the Mathematics Genealogy Project, which track the careers of 114,666 mathematicians since 1637, provide a data set with sufficient detail for those questions to be addressed. Malmgren et al. determine that career success of academic mathematicians was correlated with how many protégés they mentored, and the protégés of mentors with small trainee pools went on to have significantly larger than expected mentorship pools themselves.

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  • R. Dean Malmgren & Julio M. Ottino & Luís A. Nunes Amaral, 2010. "The role of mentorship in protégé performance," Nature, Nature, vol. 465(7298), pages 622-626, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:465:y:2010:i:7298:d:10.1038_nature09040
    DOI: 10.1038/nature09040
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