The Postdoctoral Experience Revisited (2014) / Chapter Skim
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(NRC 1969) Although that report was, on the whole, a positive review of the use of postdoctoral researchers, in 1981 the National Research Council report Postdoctoral Appointments and Disappointments (NRC 1981)
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. Aware of the continuing concerns regarding employment compensation, benefits, and length of time to transition from postdoctoral researchers into permanent positions, in 2011 the National Academies formed an ad hoc committee under the auspices of COSEPUP to review the state of the postdoctoral experience.
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The committee reviewed the available data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other sources; heard testimony from numerous postdoctoral researchers; met with senior officials of NSF, the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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The number of postdoctoral researchers in science, engineering, and health has increased dramatically, up nearly 150 percent between 2000 and 2012. That far surpasses both the percentage increases in graduate students and in tenure and tenure track faculty positions over the same time period.
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However, unlike SDR, it does not gather data on people in nonacademic positions or academic units that lack graduate programs, including many academic research organizations and affiliated nonprofit research centers. The SDR, which tracks where people go after completing doctoral training, does not include postdoctoral researchers who earned their degrees in other countries, even though more than half of all postdoctoral researchers currently working in the United States fall into this category.
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: participation in the research enterprise. Although the committee recognizes that it is important to know the extent to which postdoctoral researchers are gaining experience in reviewing journal submissions and writing grants, there is simply no way to accurately acquire that information.
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