Table 2. Likelihood of nepotism for discipline in UK.
| Disciplines in the UK | People | LastNames | Expected | p-value |
| Pharmacy | 550 | 484 | 512.5 | <.001 |
| Geography | 1417 | 1128 | 1227.3 | <.001 |
| Archaeology | 652 | 570 | 601.4 | <.001 |
| Political Sciences | 4461 | 3229 | 3344.1 | <.001 |
| Architecture | 1327 | 1106 | 1156.8 | <.001 |
| Agriculture | 1204 | 989 | 1059.0 | <.001 |
| Earth Sciences | 1425 | 1172 | 1233.5 | <.001 |
| Chemistry | 1337 | 1074 | 1164.6 | <.001 |
| Education | 2038 | 1595 | 1697.7 | <.001 |
| English Language and Literature | 2128 | 1646 | 1763.7 | <.001 |
| Medical Sciences | 9884 | 6045 | 6463.8 | <.001 |
| Life Sciences | 3591 | 2649 | 2779.9 | <.001 |
| History | 2018 | 1638 | 1683.0 | 0.004 |
| Electronic Engineering | 946 | 834 | 849.4 | 0.006 |
| Sports-Related Studies | 522 | 477 | 487.9 | 0.043 |
| Industrial Engineering | 3399 | 2617 | 2651.8 | 0.072 |
| Business and Management Studies | 3870 | 2926 | 2963.4 | 0.074 |
| Classics, Ancient History, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies | 523 | 480 | 488.8 | 0.086 |
| Civil Engineering | 583 | 532 | 541.5 | 0.086 |
| Anthropology | 435 | 405 | 410.5 | 0.162 |
| Library and Information Management | 337 | 319 | 321.6 | 0.285 |
| Philosophy | 1256 | 1094 | 1100.5 | 0.307 |
| Law | 1913 | 1598 | 1605.2 | 0.338 |
| Linguistics | 367 | 348 | 349.0 | 0.439 |
| Physics | 2016 | 1680 | 1681.5 | 0.474 |
| Psychology | 1865 | 1570 | 1569.4 | 0.526 |
| Statistics | 445 | 425 | 419.4 | 0.920 |
| American, Middle Eastern, African, Asian, European, Celtic Studies | 1124 | 1012 | 994.8 | 0.947 |
| Philology | 1263 | 1128 | 1106.0 | 0.971 |
| Mathematics | 1786 | 1567 | 1510.2 | >.999 |
| Economics | 1270 | 1155 | 1111.6 | >.999 |
| Informatics | 2059 | 1786 | 1713.2 | >.999 |
| Art History | 4146 | 3244 | 3142.5 | >.999 |
Results of the Monte Carlo simulation for each discipline (sector) from the UK dataset of academics. The number of academics in the discipline (People), the number of distinct last names (Last names), the expected number of last names (Expected), and the associated p-value, measuring how probable it is to find an equal or lower number of distinct last names by chance, are reported. Significant p-values are in bold.