A Note on PhD Population Growth in Biomedical Sciences

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 402-405

  Ghaffarzadegan, Navid ^a   Hawley, Joshua ^b   Larson, Richard ^c   Xue, Yi ^c  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

biomedical fields; PhD population; postdoc; R0; science workforce development

Indexed keywords

POPULATION STATISTICS;

BASIC REPRODUCTIVE NUMBER; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BIOMEDICAL FIELDS; BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE; PHD POPULATION; POPULATION GROWTH; POSTDOC; WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 85011711496     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: 10991743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sres.2324     Document Type: Article

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