Rise of the science and engineering postdoctorate and the restructuring of academic research

Journal of Higher Education

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 667-696

  Cantwel, Brendan ^a   Taylor, Barrett J ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic research enterprise; Postdoc; Resource dependence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940377509     PISSN: 00221546     EISSN: 15384640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2015.11777379     Document Type: Article

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