Measuring Nepotism through Shared Last Names: The Case of Italian Academia

Stefano Allesina

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021160

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Measuring Nepotism through Shared Last Names: The Case of Italian Academia

Stefano Allesina

* E-mail: sallesina@uchicago.edu

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, Computation Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Measuring Nepotism through Shared Last Names: The Case of Italian Academia

Stefano Allesina

Published: August 3, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021160

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A brave paper

Posted by ivann73 on 09 Sep 2011 at 15:01 GMT

Congratulations for your braveness and courage! This paper makes more public - to the International audience - what in Italy is known to everyone: that merit counts far less than your DNA. Thank you.

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