I'm glad they used the word "operationalism". I've been seeing this type of conclusion fairly often in recent times and now I have a word to describe what it is

I'm glad they used the word "operationalism". I've been seeing this type of conclusion fairly often in recent times and now I have a word to describe what it is. Also I agree that it is strange they didn't just ask those used as data points if their co-authors were mentors. I imagine there are a lot of mentees who never co-publish papers with their mentors (as there are multiple different connotations for the word "mentor")