Employers, courts, and the general public judge the credibility of professionals based on credentials such as academic degrees, publications, memberships in professional organizations, board certifications, and professional registrations.
If you add up the advanced degrees, publications, appointments and awards won by Geographic's guides, if you add up their peaks climbed, borders crossed and languages spoken, you would be too overwhelmed to get out of your armchair.
The most important listings on a CV--degrees, publications, awards--are easily verified, especially in the age of the Internet.
Using data on 11,000 graduate students from 100 departments over a 20 year period, I test whether graduate student outcomes (graduation rates, time to degree, publication success, and initial job placement) differ based on a student's gender and marital status.
Brilliant researchers such as biochemist Gerty Radnitz Cori and physicist Maria Goeppert-Mayer were shunted off to lesser positions or institutions while their husbands, with degrees and publications no better than their own, held prestigious professorships.
Applications were randomly selected to investigate claims of AOA election, advanced degrees and publications.
Then, discuss the following questions as a class: To what degree should publications be responsible for verifying the credibility of their sources before publishing articles?
"Of course she was a workhorse," Oates writes of M.R., "but an uncomplaining workhorse — with the Harvard degree, and publications, something of a Thoroughbred-workhorse".
Online surveys were developed to track CEINT participants' demographics, to assess influence on curriculum, new degree programs, publications, dissemination and to provide feedback on student placements as well as to track student career paths post-graduation.
As for xiphoidal and lower rib syndromes, they can last a very long time, sometimes decades, and be mistaken for digestive diseases to such a degree that publications concerning this problem are issued by gastroenterology services [ 35, 36].
Our empirical findings corroborate that the relationship between collaboration degree and publication rates is curvilinear, and shed some light on the selection mechanisms at work.
