The phrase "a majority of academic" is not correct as it is incomplete.
It should be "a majority of academics" to refer to a group of scholars or individuals in academia. You can use it when discussing the opinions or findings of a significant portion of scholars in a particular field.
Example: "A majority of academics agree that climate change is a pressing issue that requires immediate action."
Alternatives: "most scholars" or "the majority of scholars".
But Michael Greenberger, a professor at the University of Maryland Law School, says that a majority of academic studies on this issue — from Texas A&M, Rice and Stanford — demonstrate the ill effects of speculation on energy and food prices.
Nowadays, it is the mainstream approach used almost in every industrial database [21, 28, 30, 33, 70] and in a majority of academic studies.
And the rejections are more than a breach of professional etiquette; a majority of academic geneticists say that data hoarding retards progress in the field.
However, there was a discrepancy between the different tracks: While a majority of academic track students reached norm proficiency in PISA, only a minority of non-academic track students even reached baseline proficiency.
A majority of academics initially recruited by HKUST were either born in China or had direct family ties to China, but had been educated abroad, in the United States or in Europe.
A majority of academics agreed with the double-blind peer review and to the establishment of an appeal system.
The responses regarding the authoring environment indicated that the system might be user-friendly enough to appeal to a majority of the academic staff.
The authoring environment also seemed good enough to enable medical teachers with limited computer knowledge to create cases on their own, which indicates that the system might be user-friendly enough to appeal to a majority of the academic staff.
Hitler always received higher ratings from students than from any other group in society, his views being strongly supported by a majority of German academics, with the world-famous philosopher Martin Heidegger setting the pattern.
Our findings suggest that a majority of biomedical academics support anonymity of both authors and reviewers, and the establishment of an appeal system within the journal to handle unfairly rejected articles.
