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Family Matters: Measuring Impact Through One's Academic Descendants.

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Marsh, EJ
Published in: Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science
November 2017

Scientific contributions take many forms, not all of which result in fame or are captured in traditional metrics of success (e.g., h factor). My focus is on one of the most lasting and important contributions a scientist can make: training scientists who go on to train scientists, who in turn train more scientists, etc. Academic genealogies provide many examples of scientists whose names might not be recognizable today but who trained psychologists that went on to publish very influential work. Of course success results from a combination of many factors (including but not limited to the student's abilities and motivation, luck, institutional resources, mentoring, etc.), but the field should find more ways to acknowledge the role that mentoring does play.

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Published In

Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science

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EISSN

1745-6924

ISSN

1745-6916

Publication Date

November 2017

Volume

12

Issue

6

Start / End Page

1130 / 1132

Related Subject Headings

  • Universities
  • Students
  • Social Psychology
  • Scholarly Communication
  • Periodicals as Topic
  • Mentoring
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Humans
  • Bibliometrics
  • Animals
 

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Marsh, E. J. (2017). Family Matters: Measuring Impact Through One's Academic Descendants. Perspectives on Psychological Science : A Journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 12(6), 1130–1132. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691617719759
Marsh, Elizabeth J. “Family Matters: Measuring Impact Through One's Academic Descendants.Perspectives on Psychological Science : A Journal of the Association for Psychological Science 12, no. 6 (November 2017): 1130–32. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691617719759.
Marsh EJ. Family Matters: Measuring Impact Through One's Academic Descendants. Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. 2017 Nov;12(6):1130–2.
Marsh, Elizabeth J. “Family Matters: Measuring Impact Through One's Academic Descendants.Perspectives on Psychological Science : A Journal of the Association for Psychological Science, vol. 12, no. 6, Nov. 2017, pp. 1130–32. Epmc, doi:10.1177/1745691617719759.
Marsh EJ. Family Matters: Measuring Impact Through One's Academic Descendants. Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. 2017 Nov;12(6):1130–1132.
Journal cover image

Published In

Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science

DOI

EISSN

1745-6924

ISSN

1745-6916

Publication Date

November 2017

Volume

12

Issue

6

Start / End Page

1130 / 1132

Related Subject Headings

  • Universities
  • Students
  • Social Psychology
  • Scholarly Communication
  • Periodicals as Topic
  • Mentoring
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Humans
  • Bibliometrics
  • Animals