MENTAL MODEL · M4204

Invisible College

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CORE DEFINITION

Invisible College is a term used to describe a non-public network of researchers operating in an informal way. Originally used to describe the early association of the Enlightenment-era Royal Society of London, which consisted of a number of natural philosophers such as Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, the term has been of considerable interest to scholars since the 1960s with the research of De

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Invisible College is a term used to describe a non-public network of researchers operating in an informal way. Originally used to describe the early association of the Enlightenment-era Royal Society

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Refers to informal, cross-institutional networks of scholars that form knowledge production communities through correspondence and mutual citation, often preceding or parallel to formal institutions.

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Practice this model in one real situation:

Identify invisible networks within a field
actively participate in academic correspondence and preprint sharing
leverage weak ties to gain new ideas.

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