Fig. 3
From: Intellectual synthesis in mentorship determines success in academic careers
The odds of becoming an academic mentor are correlated with a trainee’s ability to synthesize disparate influences from their own mentors, as measured by the semantic similarity of their abstracts published prior to the end of postdoc training. Insets indicate the mean of the two trainee groups, i.e., those who do and do not become academic mentors, and 95% confidence intervals. a, b Trainees who become mentors show greater similarity with their graduate (A) and postdoctoral (B) advisors. c Lower similarity between these mentors is also linked with better odds to continue in academic research. d protégés that have a greater publication proximity with their postdoc mentor, compared to their graduate mentor, tend to move to independent academic positions more frequently
