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Scientific Professions

Research Brief

Is the Federal Scientific and Technical Workforce Facing a Crisis?

There is no clear evidence that the federal government faces impending shortages of scientific and technical personnel. However, there are concerns among federal research managers that personnel shortages and skill gaps could emerge in the near futur...

Jan 1, 2004
Report

Is There a Shortage of Scientists and Engineers? How Would We Know?

This paper assesses the existence of workforce shortages and points toward strategies for addressing them.

Jan 1, 2003
Commentary

Creating a World Center for Scientist-Explorers

Published commentary by RAND staff

Sep 30, 2002
Journal Article

Recruiting and Retaining Future Generations of Physician Scientists in Mental Health

The authors discuss 6 challenges facing the recruitment and retention of physician scientists as career mental health researchers.

Jan 1, 2002
Report

Pay Competitiveness and Quality of Department Of Defense Scientists and Engineers

Presents an analysis of the pay competitiveness, and quality of employees recruited and retained, for civilian scientific and engineering positions in Department of Defense (DoD) laboratories.

Jan 1, 2001
Report

Research Careers of Recipients of the Research Scientist and the Research Scientist Development Awards

... aim to identify and foster the careers of promising researchers in scientific areas related to problems of alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health, and to improve the quality and productivity of research in these fields.

Jan 1, 1988
Report

Some Aspects of the Allocation of Scientific Effort Between Teaching and Research

An analysis of the allocation of new scientists between teaching and research.

Jan 1, 1966
Journal Article

Commentary on the Researcher and the Manager: A Dialectic of Implementation

The authors proposed an area of research on the problem of proper relationships between the applied scientist and the manager in today's society.

Jan 1, 1965
Report

An Economic Analysis of the Market for Scientists and Engineers

This study was stimulated by the question of whether there is now or has been in the recent past a "shortage" of scientists and engineers, and, if so, in what sense a shortage can exist.

Jan 1, 1958

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