Research productivity of foreign- and US-born faculty: Differences by time on task

Higher Education

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 709-729

  Webber, Karen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Faculty productivity; Faculty workload; Foreign born faculty; Research productivity; Scholarly research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866498762     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-012-9523-6     Document Type: Article

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