Manzo, Gianluca; Baldassarri, Delia - In: Sociological Methods & Research 44 (2015) 2, pp. 329-387
Since Merton’s classical analysis of cumulative advantage in science, it has been observed that status hierarchies display a sizable disconnect between actors’ quality and rank and that they become increasingly asymmetric over time, without, however, turning into winner-take-all...