He gave as an example an archeologist who asserted that there was no incompatibility between the position of scientists who had evidence that Native Americans came to North America across the Bering Strait more than ten thousand years ago and the position of Indians who believed that their ancestors arose, fully formed, from a subterranean spirit world.
With respect to universities, the concept of reputation subsumes the repute, image, prestige, standing, rank, and position of scientists, faculties, or superordinate organizational units (Brenzikofer and Staffelbach 2003).
Speakers also discussed the position of scientists who are religious as members of two minorities; religious people are a minority among scientists and scientists are a minority among believers.
Combining supervised machine learning and network analysis techniques in an innovative way, they show that the position of scientists in the collaboration network alone is - to a surprisingly large degree - indicative for the future citation success of their papers.
Last year, the number of positions for scientists at public laboratories in Korea dropped by 8.7%, and private companies trimmed their R&D payrolls by 6%.
From there they can progress to the positions of senior scientist, group leader, and for some, research fellow.
Within a generation the limited number of salaried positions for scientists in England, such as the chairs at Oxford, Cambridge, and Gresham College, were monopolized by the young Newtonians of the next generation.
Even if a young Ph.D. scientist does get a post as a senior lecturer (or university lecturer), a senior lecturer usually will have a heavy teaching load, in addition to active research, so these are not ideal positions for scientists at the beginning of their independent research careers.
In December 2002, the NWO published a book entitled 'Colourful Talent in Science' portraying immigrant scientists, together with the results of their study on the position of immigrant scientists in Dutch universities.
And this is the fallback position of most scientists.
