A Note on PhD Population Growth in Biomedical Sciences

The explosive increase in the number of postdocs in biomedical fields is puzzling for many science policymakers. We use our previously introduced parameter in this journal, the basic reproductive number in academia (R-0), to make sense of PhD population growth in biomedical fields. Our analysis show...

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Main Authors: Ghaffarzadegan, Navid, Hawley, Joshua, Larson, Richard Charles, Xue, Yi
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115376
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