I wish the field of science was more attuned to the #MatthewEffect (essentially the "rich" getting richer over time)
The consequences are real.
The consequences are real.
🧵 The Matthew Effect: Why science isn’t a level playing field
Success in science isn’t just about quality or originality. In a new commentary Ondřej Machek reflects on how early wins create self-reinforcing advantages in research careers. Let’s talk about the #MatthewEffect 👇
Success in science isn’t just about quality or originality. In a new commentary Ondřej Machek reflects on how early wins create self-reinforcing advantages in research careers. Let’s talk about the #MatthewEffect 👇
July 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I wish the field of science was more attuned to the #MatthewEffect (essentially the "rich" getting richer over time)
The consequences are real.
The consequences are real.
ESPAnet 2026. #mattheweffect
Second session begins! @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social on childhood mental health disorders and their cumulative impact later on in life. Drawing on Finnish register data, she shows that childhood mental health disorders are strongly associated with later outcomes, even controlled for grades #ESPAnet2026
August 27, 2026 at 4:14 PM
ESPAnet 2026. #mattheweffect
👀ICYMI | "At the core of all these tools is a series of verbs: to surface, to rank, to summarise, and to recommend"
#AcademicSky #AIbias #MatthewEffect @jpooley.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #AIbias #MatthewEffect @jpooley.bsky.social
The Matthew effect in AI summary - LSE Impact
AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
May 27, 2026 at 3:02 PM
👀ICYMI | "At the core of all these tools is a series of verbs: to surface, to rank, to summarise, and to recommend"
#AcademicSky #AIbias #MatthewEffect @jpooley.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #AIbias #MatthewEffect @jpooley.bsky.social
Some context for my frustration.
£225m get tossed at a single shiny AI-exclusive machine, while many UK ARC teams scrounge for funds to replace lost staff & aging infrastructure. #MatthewEffect #LevelingUp is a farce.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
£225m get tossed at a single shiny AI-exclusive machine, while many UK ARC teams scrounge for funds to replace lost staff & aging infrastructure. #MatthewEffect #LevelingUp is a farce.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
November 3, 2023 at 10:34 PM
Some context for my frustration.
£225m get tossed at a single shiny AI-exclusive machine, while many UK ARC teams scrounge for funds to replace lost staff & aging infrastructure. #MatthewEffect #LevelingUp is a farce.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
£225m get tossed at a single shiny AI-exclusive machine, while many UK ARC teams scrounge for funds to replace lost staff & aging infrastructure. #MatthewEffect #LevelingUp is a farce.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
🧵 The Matthew Effect: Why science isn’t a level playing field
Success in science isn’t just about quality or originality. In a new commentary Ondřej Machek reflects on how early wins create self-reinforcing advantages in research careers. Let’s talk about the #MatthewEffect 👇
Success in science isn’t just about quality or originality. In a new commentary Ondřej Machek reflects on how early wins create self-reinforcing advantages in research careers. Let’s talk about the #MatthewEffect 👇
July 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🧵 The Matthew Effect: Why science isn’t a level playing field
Success in science isn’t just about quality or originality. In a new commentary Ondřej Machek reflects on how early wins create self-reinforcing advantages in research careers. Let’s talk about the #MatthewEffect 👇
Success in science isn’t just about quality or originality. In a new commentary Ondřej Machek reflects on how early wins create self-reinforcing advantages in research careers. Let’s talk about the #MatthewEffect 👇
#AcademicSky
Researchers at prestigious universities (in China) benefit in getting grant funding, even controlling for PI research background.
The "rich" getting richer.
#MatthewEffect
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Researchers at prestigious universities (in China) benefit in getting grant funding, even controlling for PI research background.
The "rich" getting richer.
#MatthewEffect
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Do researchers from prestigious universities deserve advantages in research funding? Evidence from the National Natural Science Foundation of China - Scientometrics
Existing literature underscores the unequal distribution of research funding across universities of varying prestige, yet the mechanisms through which university prestige influences funding success re...
link.springer.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
#AcademicSky
Researchers at prestigious universities (in China) benefit in getting grant funding, even controlling for PI research background.
The "rich" getting richer.
#MatthewEffect
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Researchers at prestigious universities (in China) benefit in getting grant funding, even controlling for PI research background.
The "rich" getting richer.
#MatthewEffect
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🗣️"Merton framed the dynamic as a “misallocation” of recognition, an injustice to those (often junior) scientists whose credit is diverted to the undeserving few"
#MatthewEffect #AcWri
#MatthewEffect #AcWri
The Matthew effect in AI summary - LSE Impact
AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
September 9, 2026 at 8:21 AM
🗣️"Merton framed the dynamic as a “misallocation” of recognition, an injustice to those (often junior) scientists whose credit is diverted to the undeserving few"
#MatthewEffect #AcWri
#MatthewEffect #AcWri
Do researchers from prestigious universities have an unfair advantage in securing research funding? A new study on China's NSFC grants confirms the #MatthewEffect - the rich get richer in academia. doi.org/10.1007/s111... #ScienceFunding #AcademicInequality #Scientometrics
Do researchers from prestigious universities deserve advantages in research funding? Evidence from the National Natural Science Foundation of China - Scientometrics
Existing literature underscores the unequal distribution of research funding across universities of varying prestige, yet the mechanisms through which university prestige influences funding success re...
doi.org
March 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Do researchers from prestigious universities have an unfair advantage in securing research funding? A new study on China's NSFC grants confirms the #MatthewEffect - the rich get richer in academia. doi.org/10.1007/s111... #ScienceFunding #AcademicInequality #Scientometrics
History doesn't always remember who discovered an idea.
Sometimes it remembers who had the biggest microphone.
Jace's Question #Extra: The Name Tag
Why recognition often follows reputation more than originality.
#MeaningInTheAIEra #MatthewEffect #AcademicLife #ResearchCulture #KnowledgeNetworks
Sometimes it remembers who had the biggest microphone.
Jace's Question #Extra: The Name Tag
Why recognition often follows reputation more than originality.
#MeaningInTheAIEra #MatthewEffect #AcademicLife #ResearchCulture #KnowledgeNetworks
July 26, 2026 at 1:39 PM
History doesn't always remember who discovered an idea.
Sometimes it remembers who had the biggest microphone.
Jace's Question #Extra: The Name Tag
Why recognition often follows reputation more than originality.
#MeaningInTheAIEra #MatthewEffect #AcademicLife #ResearchCulture #KnowledgeNetworks
Sometimes it remembers who had the biggest microphone.
Jace's Question #Extra: The Name Tag
Why recognition often follows reputation more than originality.
#MeaningInTheAIEra #MatthewEffect #AcademicLife #ResearchCulture #KnowledgeNetworks
Peer review was designed to protect science.
But who protects science from the gatekeepers?
Jace’s Question #19: Who Reviews the Gatekeepers?
Ideas are free. Recognition is not.
And the price of entry is obedience.
#MeaningInTheAIEra ##PreprintPenalty #MatthewEffect #PeerReview #OpenScience
But who protects science from the gatekeepers?
Jace’s Question #19: Who Reviews the Gatekeepers?
Ideas are free. Recognition is not.
And the price of entry is obedience.
#MeaningInTheAIEra ##PreprintPenalty #MatthewEffect #PeerReview #OpenScience
August 2, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Peer review was designed to protect science.
But who protects science from the gatekeepers?
Jace’s Question #19: Who Reviews the Gatekeepers?
Ideas are free. Recognition is not.
And the price of entry is obedience.
#MeaningInTheAIEra ##PreprintPenalty #MatthewEffect #PeerReview #OpenScience
But who protects science from the gatekeepers?
Jace’s Question #19: Who Reviews the Gatekeepers?
Ideas are free. Recognition is not.
And the price of entry is obedience.
#MeaningInTheAIEra ##PreprintPenalty #MatthewEffect #PeerReview #OpenScience
when quality is tough to measure objectively, reputation often takes its place and the #Mattheweffect takes over. Well-known names get the recognition, even if their work isn’t actually superior. 🤷♀️📚
#academia
#science
#education
buff.ly/qiMHHuP
#academia
#science
#education
buff.ly/qiMHHuP
June 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
when quality is tough to measure objectively, reputation often takes its place and the #Mattheweffect takes over. Well-known names get the recognition, even if their work isn’t actually superior. 🤷♀️📚
#academia
#science
#education
buff.ly/qiMHHuP
#academia
#science
#education
buff.ly/qiMHHuP
New study: "While #LLMs can aid in citation generation, they may also amplify existing biases, such as the #mattheweffect, and introduce new ones, potentially skewing scientific knowledge dissemination."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15739
#ai #citations, #citationbias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15739
#ai #citations, #citationbias
August 28, 2024 at 4:06 PM
New study: "While #LLMs can aid in citation generation, they may also amplify existing biases, such as the #mattheweffect, and introduce new ones, potentially skewing scientific knowledge dissemination."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15739
#ai #citations, #citationbias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15739
#ai #citations, #citationbias
The implications of the #MatthewEffect can obviously be felt across researchers.
But also across geographical regions etc.
But also across geographical regions etc.
July 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The implications of the #MatthewEffect can obviously be felt across researchers.
But also across geographical regions etc.
But also across geographical regions etc.
rollo75.blogspot.com/2025/11/hors... - blogged
The US Government Shutdown Is Just "The Matthew Effect" Being Played Out Again
#USPoli #MatthewEffect
The US Government Shutdown Is Just "The Matthew Effect" Being Played Out Again
#USPoli #MatthewEffect
Horse 3495 - The US Government Shutdown Is Just "The Matthew Effect" Being Played Out Again
For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. - ...
rollo75.blogspot.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:33 AM
rollo75.blogspot.com/2025/11/hors... - blogged
The US Government Shutdown Is Just "The Matthew Effect" Being Played Out Again
#USPoli #MatthewEffect
The US Government Shutdown Is Just "The Matthew Effect" Being Played Out Again
#USPoli #MatthewEffect