While postdoctoral fellowships are viewed as positions that prepare PhD students for
academic careers, studies show that most postdocs will not find tenure-track employment …

Concerns with postdoctoral research training and employment outcomes are growing at an
international level. Recent studies of postdoctoral and other contract researchers in various …

Discussions about science and engineering postdoctoral researchers focus almost
exclusively on academic postdocs and their chances of eventually securing tenure-track …

This article examines the effects that performing a post-doc early in the academic career
have for the current scholarly practices of faculty members. Results show that performing a …

Recent reports have called for changes to the training of postdoctoral scientists and
engineers. We tested the hypothesis that the changes advocated make a measurable …

Doing a 'postdoc'following a doctorate is becoming more and more common worldwide as
the pre-tenure job market continues shrinking in relation to the number of PhD graduates …

The number of postdoctoral researchers has increased dramatically in the past decade.
Because of the limited number of academic staff openings and the general levels of salary …

Background The decision of whether to pursue a tenure-track faculty position has become
increasingly difficult for undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral trainees considering a …

Since the 1980s the number of postdocs employed at US research universities has in-
creased dramatically as has the importance of postdocs to academic research. Growth in …

For postdocs to have the best chances of achieving their career goals they need to not only
acquire discipline-specific research experience, but also additional generic skills vital for …