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Most US professors are trained at same few elite universities

‘Jarring’ study reveals hiring bias at US institutions.
  1. Anna Nowogrodzki
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US universities hire most of their tenure-track faculty members from the same handful of elite institutions, according to a study1. The finding suggests that prestige is overvalued in hiring decisions and that academic researchers have little opportunity to obtain jobs at institutions considered more elite than the ones at which they were trained.

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Nature 609, 887 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02998-w

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  1. Wapman, K. H., Zhang, S., Clauset, A. & Larremore, D. B. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05222-x (2022).

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