Retention of talented academic researchers: Evidence from a government intervention
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Assessing academic researchers.
On a recent trip to China and India, I had the opportunity to discuss with many young researchers at various universities about the expectations that they must meet in order to succeed professionally. Many of them thought that the road to success was measured in various forms of “scientometric” data, such as h-index factors and the number of publication citations. I do think that scientometric ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0008-4085,1540-5982
DOI: 10.1111/caje.12175