The role of mentorship in protégé performance

Nature

Volumn 465, Issue 7298, 2010, Pages 622-626

  Malmgren, R Dean ^a,b   Ottino, Julio M ^a,c   Nunes Amaral, Luís A ^a,c  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b Datascope Analytics   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; ECONOMIC GROWTH; HUMAN RESOURCE; SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS; TRAINING;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENEALOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEACHER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; ALTRUISM; BIBLIOMETRICS; CAREER CHOICE; CHILD; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MATHEMATICS; MENTORS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARENTS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE;

EID: 77953221215     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09040     Document Type: Article

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