Identification of successful mentoring communities using network-based analysis of mentor-mentee relationships across Nobel laureates.

ABSTRACT: Skills underlying scientific innovation and discovery generally develop within an academic community, often beginning with a graduate mentor's laboratory. In this paper, a network analysis of doctoral student-dissertation advisor relationships in The Academic Family Tree indicates the pattern of Nobel laureate mentoring relationships is non-random. Nobel laureates had a greater number of Nobel laureate ancestors, descendants, mentees/grandmentees, and local academic family, supporting the notion that assortative processes occur in the selection of mentors and mentees. Subnetworks composed entirely of Nobel laureates extended across as many as four generations. Several successful mentoring communities in high-level science were identified, as measured by number of Nobel laureates within the

SUBMITTER: Chariker JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5438421 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature