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The Diversity–Innovation Paradox in Science

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2020-04, Vol.117 (17), p.9284-9291 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright National Academy of Sciences Apr 28, 2020 ;2020 ;ISSN: 0027-8424 ;EISSN: 1091-6490 ;DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1915378117 ;PMID: 32291335

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  • Title:
    The Diversity–Innovation Paradox in Science
  • Author: Hofstra, Bas ; Kulkarni, Vivek V. ; Galvez, Sebastian Munoz-Najar ; He, Bryan ; Jurafsky, Dan ; McFarland, Daniel A.
  • Subjects: Careers ; Discounts ; Gender ; Innovations ; Learning algorithms ; Machine learning ; Minority & ethnic groups ; Paradoxes ; Social Sciences
  • Is Part Of: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2020-04, Vol.117 (17), p.9284-9291
  • Description: Prior work finds a diversity paradox: Diversity breeds innovation, yet underrepresented groups that diversify organizations have less successful careers within them. Does the diversity paradox hold for scientists as well? We study this by utilizing a near-complete population of ∼1.2 million US doctoral recipients from 1977 to 2015 and following their careers into publishing and faculty positions. We use text analysis and machine learning to answer a series of questions: How do we detect scientific innovations? Are underrepresented groups more likely to generate scientific innovations? And are the innovations of underrepresented groups adopted and rewarded? Our analyses show that underrepresented groups produce higher rates of scientific novelty. However, their novel contributions are devalued and discounted: For example, novel contributions by gender and racial minorities are taken up by other scholars at lower rates than novel contributions by gender and racial majorities, and equally impactful contributions of gender and racial minorities are less likely to result in successful scientific careers than for majority groups. These results suggest there may be unwarranted reproduction of stratification in academic careers that discounts diversity’s role in innovation and partly explains the underrepresentation of some groups in academia.
  • Publisher: United States: National Academy of Sciences
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0027-8424
    EISSN: 1091-6490
    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1915378117
    PMID: 32291335
  • Source: GFMER Free Medical Journals
    PubMed Central
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