Doctorate Production with Baccalaureate Origins

National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, Office of Scientific Personnel, Doctorate Production in United States Universities, 1936-56, with Baccalaureate Origins of Doctorates in Sciences, Arts, and Humanities, Publication 582, Washington, D. C., 1958. 

In 1952, Knapp and Goodrich published one of the earliest studies of the baccalaureate origins of U.S. Ph.D. scientists. Institutional productivity was measured with an index based on the rate per thousand at which graduates of the institution between 1924 and 1934 continued to the doctoral level. The sample was drawn from individuals listed in the 1944 edition of American Men of Science. The... 

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