The association between early career informal mentorship in academic collaborations and junior author performance.
Journal
Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
17 11 2020
17 11 2020
Historique:
received:
04
11
2019
accepted:
14
10
2020
entrez:
18
11
2020
pubmed:
19
11
2020
medline:
17
12
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
We study mentorship in scientific collaborations, where a junior scientist is supported by potentially multiple senior collaborators, without them necessarily having formal supervisory roles. We identify 3 million mentor-protégé pairs and survey a random sample, verifying that their relationship involved some form of mentorship. We find that mentorship quality predicts the scientific impact of the papers written by protégés post mentorship without their mentors. We also find that increasing the proportion of female mentors is associated not only with a reduction in post-mentorship impact of female protégés, but also a reduction in the gain of female mentors. While current diversity policies encourage same-gender mentorships to retain women in academia, our findings raise the possibility that opposite-gender mentorship may actually increase the impact of women who pursue a scientific career. These findings add a new perspective to the policy debate on how to best elevate the status of women in science.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33203848
doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-19723-8
pii: 10.1038/s41467-020-19723-8
pmc: PMC7672107
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Retracted Publication
Langues
eng
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