School of Mathematics, Southeast University , Nanjing 210096, People's Republic of China.
Department of Computer Science, University College London, 66-72 Gower Street , London WC1E 6EA, UK.
J R Soc Interface. 2024 Aug;21(217):20240173. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2024.0173. Epub 2024 Aug 14.
The Great Gatsby Curve measures the relationship between income inequality and intergenerational income persistence. By using genealogical data of over 245 000 mentor-mentee pairs and their academic publications from 22 different disciplines, this study demonstrates that an academic Great Gatsby Curve exists as well, in the form of a positive correlation between academic impact inequality and the persistence of impact across academic generations. We also provide a detailed breakdown of academic persistence, showing that the correlation between the impact of mentors and that of their mentees has increased over time, indicating an overall decrease in academic intergenerational mobility. We analyse such persistence across a variety of dimensions, including mentorship types, gender and institutional prestige.
《了不起的盖茨比曲线》衡量了收入不平等与代际收入持续性之间的关系。本研究利用来自 22 个不同学科的超过 245000 对导师-学员配对的系谱数据及其学术出版物，证明了学术领域也存在“了不起的盖茨比曲线”，其表现形式为学术影响力不平等与学术代际影响力持续性之间存在正相关关系。我们还提供了学术持续性的详细细分，表明导师影响力与其学员影响力之间的相关性随着时间的推移而增加，这表明学术代际流动性总体下降。我们在各种维度上分析了这种持续性，包括导师类型、性别和机构声望。
