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How To Succeed In Academia Without Really Trying
washingtonpost.com 3 days, 9 hours agoIt’s a basic tenet of journalism: Readers pay more attention to the articles that come first, and they’re inclined to think they’re more important everything else. And it turns out that it’s no different when it comes to academic journals. Economist Victor Ginsburgh found that articles that appear first in an academic article are significantly more likely to be cited in other research , two-thirds of the time because they’re simply the first article in the journal, and only one-third of the time “because th
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Review: Funny Poke At Academia In 'Common Pursuit'
msnbc.com 4 days, 2 hours agoNEW YORK (AP) -- The loss of youthful idealism is often a slow burn, a gradual series of little defeats. Acerbic British writer Simon Gray, who died in 2008, was very good at cataloguing the ways those compromises slipped in, especially in his ironic 1984 play "The Common Pursuit." Moises Kaufman smartly directs the thoughtful revival by the Roundabout Theatre Company, that opened Thursday night off-Broadway at The Laura Pels Theatre. A group of enthusiastic, poetry-loving, Cambridge college students gather
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