His complaint—that Koch, who had gotten so much glory, was getting still more—is known today as the Matthew effect. The term was coined by Robert Merton in a 1968 paper in Science: “The Matthew effect consists in the accruing of greater increments of recognition for particular scientific contributions to scientists of considerable repute and the withholding of such recognition from scientists who have not yet made their mark.” (The term gets its name from a passage in the Gospel of Matthew: “For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not
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