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An academic Great Gatsby Curve – How much academic success is inherited?
To what extent does academic success follow success? Drawing on a dataset of mentor-mentee relations and their citations, Ye Sun, Fabio Caccioli, Xiancheng Li and Giacomo Livan suggest the dyn…
In economics, the Great Gatsby Curve describes a negative correlation between income inequality (measured, for example, by the Gini coefficient) and intergenerational social mobility. We observe that fields such as experimental psychology, microbiology, and evolutionary biology exhibit the most egalitarian citation distribution, while philosophy, education, and anthropology display the highest levels of inequality. Concrete measures such as cross-institution mentorship programs or incentives for top scholars to engage with early-career researchers outside their immediate networks could foster greater academic equity and help reduce the persistent disparities highlighted by our study.
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