Doctorates, National Science Foundation Survey

FIGURE 1.2 Women chemists. NOTE 1995 decade includes only 1990 to 1998. Other includes agricultural and food chemistry physical includes nuclear and theoretical chemistry. SOURCE Commission on Scientific and Technical Personnel, Table 6-11 data derived from National Science Foundation, Survey of Earned Doctorates 1960-1998. 

SOURCE National Science Foundation/Science Resource Statistics, Survey of Earned Doctorates, Integrated Science and Engineering Resources Data System (WebCASPAR), http //webcaspar.nsf.gov (accessed September 5, 2006). 

SOURCE National Science Foundation/Science Resources Statistics, 1993 and 2003 Survey of Doctorate Recipients. 

Another source of information on doctorates in chemistry and chemical engineering deserves mention. Since 1946, the National Academy of Sciences has maintained a Doctorate Records File (DRF) containing information on all PhD recipients in the United States since 1920. Administered by the Commission on Human Resources of the National Research Council, the Doctorate Records File is complemented by the Comprehensive Roster of Doctorate Recipients, which includes information on over 400000 PhDs. The Comprehensive Roster is composed of the DRF and the National Science Foundation s National Roster of Scientific and Technical Personnel. Since 1958, the DRF has been augmented annually by a Survey of Earned Doctorates, and the Comprehensive Roster is the basis for a biennial Survey of Doctorate Recipients. (For the results of the most recent published survey, see Science, Engineering, and Humanities Doctorates in the United States 1981 Profile (IB. 1982)). Over the past 35 yr, the NAS has sponsored a number of analyses of the demography of the doctorate community in the United States. The 1978 NRC report on A Century of Doctorates (IB) is an extremely valuable summary of this work (and it contains an annotated bibliography of other studies based on the DRF and the Comprehensive Roster). 

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