Who makes, who breaks: Which scientists stay in academe?

Economics Letters

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 229-232

  Balsmeier, Benjamin ^a,b   Pellens, Maikel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Academic careers; Scientific productivity; Scientists; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890728544     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.11.033     Document Type: Article

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