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Depth and persistence: what researchers need to know about impostor syndrome

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Understanding impostor syndrome's complexity and its effect on research persistence.

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    cover image Communications of the ACM
    Communications of the ACM  Volume 64, Issue 6
    June 2021
    106 pages
    ISSN:0001-0782
    EISSN:1557-7317
    DOI:10.1145/3467845
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