Early-career setback and future career impact
Early-career setback and future career impact
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DOI：
10.1038/s41467-019-12189-3
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发表时间：
2019-10-01
影响因子：
16.6
通讯作者：
Wang, Dashun
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作者：
Wang, Yang;Jones, Benjamin F.;Wang, Dashun
挫折是科学生涯中不可或缺的一部分，但人们对其长期影响知之甚少。在这里，我们研究初级科学家申请美国国立卫生研究院R01赠款。通过关注刚刚低于和刚刚高于资金门槛的提案，我们比较了几乎失败的申请人和险胜的申请人，发现早期职业挫折具有强大的相反影响。一方面，它显著增加了自然减员，预测从NIH系统永久消失的可能性超过10%。然而，尽管早期出现了挫折，但从长远来看，那些差点失败的人的表现会系统地优于那些险胜的人。此外，这种绩效优势似乎超越了筛选机制，表明职业生涯早期的挫折似乎会导致那些坚持下去的人的绩效改善。总的来说，这些发现与“杀不死我的东西让我更强大”的概念是一致的，这可能对识别，培训和培养年轻科学家具有广泛的意义。
Setbacks are an integral part of a scientific career, yet little is known about their long-term effects. Here we examine junior scientists applying for National Institutes of Health R01 grants. By focusing on proposals fell just below and just above the funding threshold, we compare near-miss with narrow-win applicants, and find that an early-career setback has powerful, opposing effects. On the one hand, it significantly increases attrition, predicting more than a 10% chance of disappearing permanently from the NIH system. Yet, despite an early setback, individuals with near misses systematically outperform those with narrow wins in the longer run. Moreover, this performance advantage seems to go beyond a screening mechanism, suggesting early-career setback appears to cause a performance improvement among those who persevere. Overall, these findings are consistent with the concept that "what doesn't kill me makes me stronger," which may have broad implications for identifying, training and nurturing junior scientists.