Intellectual synthesis in mentorship determines success in academic careers.
Intellectual synthesis in mentorship determines success in academic careers.
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DOI：
10.1038/s41467-018-07034-y
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发表时间：
2018-11-27
影响因子：
16.6
通讯作者：
David SV
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作者：
Liénard JF;Achakulvisut T;Acuna DE;David SV
随着学术生涯变得越来越有竞争力，年轻的科学家需要了解导师制为他们在学术界取得成功带来的价值。先前的研究发现，成功的导师往往会培养出成功的学生，这并不奇怪。但是，这种关系的哪些特征可以预测成功，以及如何预测？我们分析了一个开放获取的数据库，其中包含18，856名接受过研究生和博士后培训的研究人员，这些研究人员在生物医学科学的几个领域进行了汇编，重点是神经科学。我们的研究结果表明，博士后导师更有助于学员的成功相比，研究生导师。学员在学术界的成功也是由他们的研究生和博士后导师之间的智力综合程度预测的。如果研究人员在具有不同专业知识的导师的指导下接受培训，并将这些专业知识融入自己的工作中，他们更有可能取得成功。这种模式已经持续了至少40年，尽管学生人数和独立研究职位的可用性波动。虽然成功的导师往往会在学术生涯中培养成功的学生，但目前还不清楚导师制如何决定受训者成功的机会。在这里，Liénard及其同事分析了生命科学中大约20 K个导师/学员关系，发现学员的成功与导师研究之间的智力综合有关。
As academic careers become more competitive, junior scientists need to understand the value that mentorship brings to their success in academia. Previous research has found that, unsurprisingly, successful mentors tend to train successful students. But what characteristics of this relationship predict success, and how? We analyzed an open-access database of 18,856 researchers who have undergone both graduate and postdoctoral training, compiled across several fields of biomedical science with an emphasis on neuroscience. Our results show that postdoctoral mentors were more instrumental to trainees’ success compared to graduate mentors. Trainees’ success in academia was also predicted by the degree of intellectual synthesis between their graduate and postdoctoral mentors. Researchers were more likely to succeed if they trained under mentors with disparate expertise and integrated that expertise into their own work. This pattern has held up over at least 40 years, despite fluctuations in the number of students and availability of independent research positions. While successful mentors tend to train successful students in academic career, it’s unclear how mentorship determines chances of a success in a trainee. Here, Liénard and colleagues analyze approximately 20 K mentor/trainee relationships in life sciences, and find that success of trainees is associated with an intellectual synthesis between their mentors’ research.
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影响因子：
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作者：
Chariker JH;Zhang Y;Pani JR;Rouchka EC
通讯作者：
Rouchka EC
DOI：
10.1187/cbe.16-01-0066
发表时间：
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期刊：
CBE life sciences education
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影响因子：
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作者：
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