"The findings show that homegrown academics research agendas are not designed with the potential to lead to scientific discovery (and research breakthroughs, which involves a greater risk-taking attitude)" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/hequ.12328
The outcomes of the aforementioned study confirm something that is not only unsurprising but also inherently intuitive, as underscored by physicist Carlo Rovelli two years ago when he declared"You have to be a rebel to be a creative scientist"
It's regrettable, however, that the authors did not cross-reference the results of the inbred academic percentage per country with Nobel prizes. This missed opportunity prevents the validation of the hypothesis associating countries with a low inbred academic percentage with a higher number of Nobel Prize winners.
