Big, small or mezzo?

EMBO Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 420-423

  Vermeulen, Niki ^a   Parker, John N ^b   Penders, Bart ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FUNDING; INVESTMENT; LABORATORY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCALE UP; SCIENCE; SHORT SURVEY;

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; GROUP PROCESSES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RESEARCH; SCIENCE;

EID: 77953120993     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2010.67     Document Type: Short Survey

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