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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science

@marek-kwiek.bsky.social
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#Quantitative Science Studies / Social #Stratification in Science / Global #Academic #Profession / Full Professor / University of Poznan/ #UNESCO Chairholder / proud #Academia #Europaea member (MAE) / fundamentally open-minded, happy, sometimes lucky

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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Thank you "Nature"! Huge analysis of 320,000 careers suggests that productive researchers stay that way www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Huge analysis of 320,000 careers suggests that productive researchers stay that way
Early publishing success, team size and international collaborations are some of the best predictors of future publication rates.
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"Strongly research-oriented men expect higher median salaries than strongly research-oriented women; male top performers (upper 10%) expect higher salaries than female top performers; and male internationalists expect higher salaries than female internationalists". link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Salary expectations in academia: a large-scale study of gender differences - Scientometrics
In this examination of gender differences in financial expectations in academia, we used survey data (N = 10,788 scientists and scholars, 18 academic disciplines) integrated with individual-level bibl...
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"Digital traces left by scientists in their publications indexed in global datasets open two new dimensions in large-scale academic profession studies: time and gender". www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Women in science: measuring participation in Europe across disciplines, generations and over time - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Women in science: measuring participation in Europe across disciplines, generations and over time
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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Late blooming in STEM careers almost never happens, finds @marek-kwiek.bsky.social research www.timeshighereducation.com/news/late-bl... via @jgro-the.bsky.social
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Late blooming in STEM careers ‘almost never happens’
Early career publishing success is a reliable guide to whether scientists will succeed long term, concludes international study
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Academic profession studies of the future: Big data should complement surveys and interviews, while macro-level analyses should accompany micro-level studies. ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ih...
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Big Data and Academic Profession Studies: Toward a New Research Agenda | International Higher Education International Higher Education (IHE) - Archive
International Higher Education (IHE) publishes insightful, informed, and high-quality commentary and analysis on trends and issues of importance to higher education systems, institutions, and stakehol...
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Lucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
AI & Society faculty opportunity posted just this month with a start date of Fall 2025 and beyond: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734 ‼️🐂 For "interdisciplinary scholars whose research agenda connects the study of AI with humanistic and/or social scientific line(s) of study"
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Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, AI & Society
The Department of AI and Society (AIS) at the University at Buffalo (UB) invites candidates to apply for multiple positions as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor. The new AIS ...
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
"Your best chance of winning comes when you’re 54, the age of 24 recipients. The average age of all laureates is 58." www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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How to win a Nobel prize: what kind of scientist scoops medals?
What subjects have past winners studied? What age were they when they won? Where do they live? Nature crunched the data on every science prizewinner to find out.
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Ann-Christin Fischer @acfischer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Just a reminder that this is tomorrow!
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"A team of neurologists and AI specialists at MIT's Media Lab has led a study looking into the brain impacts of large language model (LLM) use among people who engage with them for study or work". phys.org/news/2025-06...
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Using ChatGPT to write essays may be eroding critical thinking skills
A team of neurologists and AI specialists at MIT's Media Lab has led a study looking into the brain impacts of large language model (LLM) use among people who engage with them for study or work. They ...
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"Although the latest data predate the current Trump administration, observers warn that funding cuts will accelerate the rate of China’s gain" www.nature.com/nature-index...
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Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders: United States losing ground as China’s lead expands rapidly - Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Good to remember! It is all about probabilities!
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
My short programmatic paper just out! "Traditional social scientists must now compete with data scientists and computational social scientists, who increasingly focus on issues long explored in higher education research". ihe.bc.edu/pub/7j5k6uda...
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Big Data and Academic Profession Studies: Toward a New Research Agenda
Academic profession studies need a mixed lens: big data plus surveys/interviews, macro paired with micro analysis. Large/small survey findings differ from interviews, but combined they yield sharper t...
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Interested in publication #productivity from a scientist's #lifetime perspective? Listen to this 12 minutes #discussion of my research! youtube.com/watch?v=WcRt...
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Are Scientists Changing their Research Productivity Classes When They Move Up the Academic Ladder?
YouTube video by Marek Kwiek - Global Academic Careers
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
"Companies selling authorship slots thrive in a culture that equates success with a strong publication record. Customers, sleuths and the shadowy owner of a paper mill explain why." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Authorship for sale: Nature investigates how paper mills work
Companies selling authorship slots thrive in a culture that equates success with a strong publication record. Customers, sleuths and the shadowy owner of a paper mill explain why.
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
"With massive increases in computing power and data storage, AI can perform some of the same tasks through the blunt forces of processing and analysis that higher ed has traditionally helped to hone in humans." www.highereddive.com/news/ai-whit...
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If AI takes over more work of college graduates, where does that leave higher ed?
Experts at the Higher Learning Commission's annual conference shared strategies to help institutions navigate an increasingly automated world.
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
War on talents... "Across China, cities and provinces are seeking researchers, students and innovators — both homegrown and from abroad. In return, they’re offering large sums of money, as well as housing, health care, work for their spouses and other benefits." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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How China is vying to attract the world’s top scientific talent
Hundreds of policies across the country have been designed to lure researchers and new graduates to settle there.
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Thank you @Stanford @METRICS for this seminar on high research productivity! It was a great experience! It is now on YouTube! Thanks so much. Fourth time, once a year... youtube.com/watch?v=E-ye...
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Jumpers-Up and Droppers-Down in Research Productivity? No Chance – Marek Kwiek
YouTube video by Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Interested in research on #"leaving science" conceptualized as #"quitting #publishing"? Here is the story told in 16 minutes, an excellent discussion! Kwiek, Marek, Szymula, Lukasz. #Quantifying attrition in science: a study of scientists in 38 countries www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hpw...
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Quantifying attrition in science: a cohort-based, longitudinal study of scientists in 38 countries
YouTube video by Marek Kwiek - Global Academic Careers
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Part of a global battle for talent - across China, cities & provinces are seeking researchers, students & innovators. In return, they’re offering large sums of money, as well as housing, health care, work for their spouses & other benefits…. #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
How China is vying to attract the world’s top scientific talent
Hundreds of policies across the country have been designed to lure researchers and new graduates to settle there.
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Isabel Maria Habicht @isabelmhabicht.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
3/3 ⚖️ Yes—underperformance increases the risk of leaving academia. But this applies to both men and women, challenging the idea that academic attrition is solely driven by performance-based self-selection.
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Isabel Maria Habicht @isabelmhabicht.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I recently presented at INAS2025 in NYC: “Why women leave academia? A longitudinal study of the leaky pipeline in German sociology” Thanks to @womensforuminas.bsky.social and the INAS attendees for the inspiring exchange, and @europeatharvard.bsky.social for their support! 📝 Preprint👇
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Becoming a university #chancellor comes at a cost: research output. A study of 200 top global universities shows a significant drop in article publication after chancellorship begins—especially for active, male, and North American chancellors. www.j-jdis.com/EN/10.2478/j...
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University chancellorship and research productivity: An investigation of the number of published articles
Purpose: With the growth of knowledge and increasing competition, the assessment of scientific articles has become a challenging issue. Previous research suggests that multiple variables influence the...
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Two days with #UNESCO in #Advisory Board of GEM - Global Education Monitoring. Extremely interesting work with and for a UN agency. Let us not #underestimate (and #underfund) global organizations, they still have enough power to prepare solid - and consequential - global reports!
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Yes. Today. 9:00-10:00 AM PT, 18:00-19:00 CET time. Fully prepared. There will be a lot of (research) fun.
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Yes. Tomorrow. Confirmed.
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
"This is not a withdrawal from global science, but a strategic recalibration. Wen’s argument – building on Henri Lefebvre and Simon Marginson’s work – positions space-making as an active reconfiguration of material, symbolic and institutional terrain." www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
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In this new era, we need a new internationalisation compact
The internationalisation of higher education is undergoing a transformation: less defined by expansion and more by governance, risk calibration and ci...
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
"This move, part of a broader pattern of Trump-era interventions, exemplifies a troubling trend: states increasingly assert control over global academic mobility." www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
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Why does internationalisation still cling to the nation-state?
The United States government’s ban on Harvard University enrolling foreign students exemplifies the growing control states are asserting over global...
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
This is what I wrote: "A perfect intro to a globally underexamined field. Written by the world's most respected scholar in private h ed, this book shows the power of a theoretically sophisticated approach to the changing dynamics of privateness & publicness in h ed." global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Interested why scholars and scientists publish in top journals? Look, or actually listen, here: Kwiek, Marek. The prestige economy of higher education journals: a quantitative approach. Higher Education 81, 493–519 (2021). DOI: 10.1007/s10734-020-00553-y. youtube.com/watch?v=kwMa...
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The prestige economy of higher education journals: a quantitative approach
YouTube video by Marek Kwiek - Global Academic Careers
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
"Without academic freedom, we might not have antibiotics, nor a deep understanding of human behaviour. Literary criticism, climate models, and ecological restoration would be severely limited; just like ethical reflection on artificial intelligemce" www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/en/current/n...
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Statement on Academic Freedom – The Rectors of the Dutch Universities (2025)
Statement on Academic Freedom – The Rectors of the Dutch Universities (2025)
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Extremely happy! Extremely proud! Teamwork - works (w. @lukasz_szymula)! Never thought we could be that succesful! Three years from idea to publication.
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Invitation! #Stanford, happy to be back! "Jumpers-Up and Droppers-Down in Research Productivity? No Chance, a Longitudinal Study of Research Productivity of 320,000 Late-Career Scientists" Registration: metrics.stanford.edu/metrics-inte... 9:00-10:00 PT Time (18:00-19:00 CET in Europe)
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
As part of Dialogues, a pilot by the nonprofit peer-tutoring platform Schoolhouse.world, students ages 14 to 18 built portfolios showcasing their ability to disagree respectfully with other peers on hot-button topics. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
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Colleges Will Give a Leg Up to Students Who Demonstrate Civility
A new program allows students to build a "civility transcript" for college through peer debates.
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Back at #Stanford #METRICS with a story of 320,000 scientists from 38 countries! June 5. METRICS Marek Kwiek: "Jumpers-Up and Droppers-Down in Research Productivity? No Chance, a Longitudinal Study of Research Productivity of 320,000 Late-Career Scientists". metrics.stanford.edu/metrics-inte...
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Interested why scholars and scientists publish in top journals? Look, or actually listen, here: Kwiek, Marek. The prestige economy of higher education journals: a quantitative approach. Higher Education 81, 493–519 (2021). DOI: 10.1007/s10734-020-00553-y. youtube.com/watch?v=kwMa...
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The prestige economy of higher education journals: a quantitative approach
YouTube video by Marek Kwiek - Global Academic Careers
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
"The scientific literature is at risk of becoming flooded with papers that make misleading health claims based on openly available data that are easy to process using artificial intelligence (AI) tools, researchers have warned." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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AI linked to explosion of low-quality biomedical research papers
Analysis flags hundreds of studies that seem to follow a template, reporting correlations between complex health conditions and single variables based on publicly available data sets.
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
"This summer school Open Science aims at providing a critical view on the “rules of a game named science,” and provides an introduction to remedies to the manifold issues jeopardizing the credibility of scientific results". www.uibk.ac.at/en/weiterbil...
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Open Science
Summer School
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
"For what many believe is the first time in its long history, Harvard University has stripped a one-time superstar professor at Harvard Business School of tenure." poetsandquants.com/2025/05/26/h...
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Harvard Strips Tenure From HBS Superstar Prof Francesca Gino
In a historical move, Harvard University has stripped tenure from Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino for alleged research fraud
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The University and College Union (UCU) has threatened to escalate its campaign against cuts to higher education funding by starting an industrial dispute with the education minister. ... exploring options that could see a sector-wide strike www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ucu-thr...
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UCU threatens government with national strike over HE funding
UK’s biggest academic union eyes showdown with Labour minister as it tries to respond to wave of university cuts
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
An academic career – once considered “highly desirable” with “many perks and a robust future” – is steadily losing its appeal, a new report has warned. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/change-...
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Change needed as academic careers ‘steadily lose their appeal’
European universities urged to re-evaluate structures and support for employees after ‘profound’ shifts in jobs market
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
"Geographically, traditional academic destinations such as Germany, the United States, and Switzerland have absorbed the majority of emigrating researchers, while non-traditional destinations, such as Armenia, the United Arab Emirates, and Kazakhstan". doi.org/10.31219/osf...
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OSF
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
"The EU AI Act transforms educators into regulated operators of high-risk AI systems when using artificial intelligence for student evaluation, creating unprecedented personal liability exposures". 15 MIL EUR per lecturer? ai4tl.blogspot.com/2025/05/educ...
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Educator Liability Under the EU AI Act: Risks and Requirements for AI-Assisted Assessment
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
#Books. We #love 'em. We are still #writing 'em. Expect a new book on "The #Global Academic Profession". Quantitive study of hundreds of #thousands of scientists & scholars. Rigorous #methodologies. Cohort-based, #longitudinal, micro-level datasets, individuals Soon.
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
"The findings reveal which research topics have “disappeared” over time and which have “migrated” from Chinese- to English-language venues, often leading to broader self-censorship outcomes than the regime intended." www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Disappearing Research: Academic Control and Self-Censorship in China | The China Journal
Abstract How does state censorship contribute to self-censorship in Chinese universities? How does self-censorship in turn affect academic output? This article addresses these questions by unveiling t...
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
"While scientific outputs should remain ‘as #open as possible, as #closed as necessary’, the Open Science community must safeguard the progress achieved so far and promote #openness as a driver of #innovation, collaboration and #economic growth". www.eua.eu/our-work/exp...
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Will Open Science survive the EU’s competitiveness agenda?
EUA - European University Association
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Exactly. Academics in the US are on the roller coaster, that's for sure. I will be seeking American scientists from my area, the science of science, quantitative science studies, soon. Polish funding from the national research Council. The money for Americans willing to work with us here.
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The paper discusses the efforts to model science as a complex multi-layered system using ideas from ecology, evolution theory, and the latest advancements in artificial intelligence and other types of modeling. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Science of science - Scientometrics
This paper presents an overview of the interdisciplinary field of science of science in the context of previous efforts to quantitatively study science, dating back to the 1920s. Rather than focusing ...
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Now you xan just LISTEN to a penetrating discussion about our research here: youtu.be/5hpwf-yxHv4?...
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Quantifying attrition in science: a cohort-based, longitudinal study of scientists in 38 countries
YouTube video by Marek Kwiek - Global Academic Careers
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Under the banner of ‘knowledge security’ and increased focus on dual-use research, doctoral candidates and their research are increasingly becoming the focus of security policy debates and geopolitical strategies. www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile....
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PhD education must not be redefined via a security lens
Under the banner of ‘knowledge security’ and an increased focus on dual-use research, doctoral candidates and their research are increasingly beco...
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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
#Personally, I would never publish anything in #Frontiers, #MDPI et consortes. Never ever! Publishing in #predatory journals destroys #individual academic #careers and spoils the images of whole #insitutions. Not a waste of #money; a waste of academic #recognition. Think twice bft sending your ms
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