Faculty hiring and retention determine the composition of the US academic workforce and
directly shape educational outcomes, careers, the development and spread of ideas and …

Most studies of academic inbreeding have focused on assessing its impact on scholarly
practices, outputs, and outcomes. Few studies have concentrated on the other possible …

Purpose–Few research has addressed the factors that undermine people's subjective
perceptions of career success. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to further illuminate the …

This article contributes to the literature on academic inbreeding by analyzing its rational,
origins, resilience, and options to limit it in two higher education systems (Russia and …

This article contradicts recent arguments in Portugal that there are “too many PhDs” and
argues that there is a need to understand better the changing nature of doctorates and …

Academic inbreeding is a phenomenon that has been studied mostly from the standpoint of
its association with research productivity. The focus has been on knowledge creation …

In this study, the effects of academic inbreeding on individual and institutional research
productivity are examined to understand its impact as a recruitment policy. Over the past …

In Portugal, research productivity is nowadays essential for the positive assessment of
academics, research units and study programmes. Academic inbreeding has been …

Studies on academic inbreeding have mostly focused on institutional inbreeding and its
negative effects, whereas little research has explored its causes. We identify current …

We propose institutional mobility indicators based on researchers' mobility flows in 22 major
fields of science across 1,130 Leiden Ranking institutions from 64 countries. We base our …