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NIH Director’s Statement, June 8, 2017: Launching the Next Generation Researchers Initiative to Strengthen the Biomedical Research Enterprise
Reports from Working Groups from Advisory Council to the Director, NIH
Biomedical Workforce Working Group Report (PDF – 4.35MB)
Executive Summary of the Biomedical Workforce Working Group (PDF – 398KB)
Physician-Scientist Workforce Working Group Report, June 2014 (PDF – 6.2MB)
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Maher, Brendan, and Miquel Sureda Anfres. “Young Scientists under Pressure: What the Data Show.” Nature 538, no. 7626 (October 27, 2016): 444. doi:10.1038/538444a.
Mason, Julie L., Elizabeth Johnston, Sam Berndt, Katie Segal, Ming Lei, and Jonathan S. Wiest. “Labor and Skills Gap Analysis of the Biomedical Research Workforce.” FASEB Journal : Official Publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 30, no. 8 (August 2016): 2673–83. doi:10.1096/fj.201500067R.
NSF Working Paper on Academic Scientific Publishing (https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srs11201/)
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Xie, Yu. “Sociology of Science. ‘Undemocracy’: Inequalities in Science.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 344, no. 6186 (May 23, 2014): 809–10. doi:10.1126/science.1252743.