Leaving science: Occupational exit from scientific careers

Leaving Science: Occupational Exit from Scientific Careers

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1-201

  Preston, Anne E ^a  

^a HAVERFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

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