Understanding discrimination in academic collaboration networks
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Diversity in backgrounds, ideas, and beliefs plays an important role in the scientific research community yet researchers belonging to minority groups are often discriminated against in academic collaborations. Here I replicate game-theoretic models originally described in a 2018 publication by Hannah Rubin and Cailin O'Connor in an attempt to reproduce their findings. Findings from these replicated models followed the same trends reported by Rubin and O'Connor including an increased likelihood of discrimination associated with smaller minority group sizes as well as a decrease in researchers working with out-group partners as a result of discriminatory norms in collaborative research networks. I then build on these base models and their findings to propose future model extensions that will provide insight into both the short-term and long-term impacts of discrimination faced by minority researchers within and beyond collaboration networks.
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M.A.