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Your Book Review: Making Nature
A book review examining the history of Nature journal and how it became one of the most prestigious scientific publications.
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A book review examining the history of Nature journal and how it became one of the most prestigious scientific publications.
Scott critiques Simler's theory of prestige, finding it insufficient for human behavior, and proposes five alternative explanations for the phenomenon.