> The Matthew effect of accumulated advantage, is the tendency of i...

>Merton spent a lot of time studying "how the social system of scie...

Robert King Merton (July, 1910 – February, 2003) was an American so...

Important point: "Glaser has found, for example, that some degree o...

Here is the current list of members in the French Academy: https://...

"Access to scientific information" as a reward is a surprising stat...

>> What holds for the French Academy holds in varying degree for ev...

>> But in greater part, the phenomenon of the 41st chair is an arti...

This is definitely still the case in science... > The world is pec...

And here we get to the crux of the paper. > This complex pattern o...

This is still very much true. "Centers of demonstrated scientific e...