Embracing diversity during researcher evaluation in the academic scientific environment

The academic bottleneck. Academia is highly competitive with universitiesproducing a huge number of PhD graduates relative to the available number ofacademic positions worldwide (Gould, 2015). For example, only 12.8%of PhDgraduates can attain academic positions in the USA (Larson et al. 2014). Thisbottleneck is also narrowing due to economic cuts in universities and researchinstitutions (OECD, 2016).