Academic inbreeding is a phenomenon that has been studied mostly from the standpoint of its association with research productivity. The focus has been on knowledge creation outputs and outcomes, while little to no attention has been given to the association of academic inbreeding with knowledge creation strategies and processes in academia. This article focusses on the latter, confirming that academic inbreeding is detrimental to the research aspirations, innovativeness, risk-taking, and multidisciplinarity engagement of academics' research agendas, as predicted by literature. These findings, based on a sample of more than 7000 academics from all fields of knowledge, working in more than 140 countries, do not find a greater influence of the PhD mentor on the strategic research agendas of homegrown academics as the literature would expect. The findings also underline critical differences between homegrown academics and silver-corded academics, stressing that the latter category of academics should not be considered as part of the academic inbreeding process (which concept rests on immobility), but rather understood as a category of limited institutional mobility that deserves further study.

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学术近亲繁殖和战略研究方法的选择

学术近亲繁殖是一种现象，主要从其与研究生产力的关系的角度进行研究。重点一直放在知识创造的产出和成果上，而很少甚至没有关注学术近亲繁殖与学术界知识创造战略和过程的关联。本文侧重于后者，证实学术近亲繁殖不利于学者研究议程的研究愿望、创新性、冒险精神和多学科参与，正如文献所预测的那样。这些调查结果基于来自所有知识领域、在 140 多个国家工作的 7000 多名学者的样本，并未发现博士生导师对本土学者的战略研究议程的影响比文献预期的更大。