About the Authors

Rüdiger Mutz

mutz@gess.ethz.ch

Affiliation Professorship for Social Psychology and Research on Higher Education, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Lutz Bornmann

Affiliation Division for Science and Innovation Studies, Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society, Munich, Germany

Hans-Dieter Daniel

Affiliations Professorship for Social Psychology and Research on Higher Education, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Evaluation Office, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RM LB HDD. Analyzed the data: RM. Wrote the paper: RM LB HDD.