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Breza E, Stanford FC, Alsan M, Alsan B, Banerjee A, Chandrasekhar AG, Eichmeyer S, Glushko T, Goldsmith-Pinkham P, Holland K, Hoppe E, Karnani M, Liegl S, Loisel T, Ogbu-Nwobodo L, Olken BA, Torres C, Vautrey P, Warner ET, Wootton S, Duflo E. 2021. Effects of a Large-Scale Social Media
May 04, 2022
U.S. adults who agree that science makes our way of life change too fast, that science provides more opportunities for the next generation, and that the federal government should fund basic scientific research: Selected years, 1992–2022
Do you strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree? This figure
February 14, 2024
USPTO patents granted, by selected U.S. industry: 2017
R&D. These statistics do not include
January 15, 2020
Veterans in STEM
S&E occupations (9%) when compared to nonveterans (9% and 6... STEM groups. For example, 21% of all veterans in S&E occupations... Among veterans employed in S&E-related occupations, 15% worked in the federal government, compared
May 30, 2024
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T hink F reely in the A ge of N eurotechnology . New York: St. Martin’s Press. Fast E, Horvitz E. 2017. Long-Term Trends in the Public Perception of Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings... Wood E, Lockhart S, Bruine de Bruin W. 2022. Private Well Testing in Peri‐Urban African‐American
February 14, 2024
Size, Growth, and Employment
S&E-related occupations. Most of the workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher (90%) worked in S&E or S&E-related occupations (Figure LBR-1).Over the last decade, workers... The percentage of all workers in S&E occupations grew in the last decade from 4% to 6%. Among workers
May 30, 2024
Graduate Students
Put another way, in 2021, 82% of S&E graduate students supported by the federal government were doctoral students (NCSES GSS 2021 : Table 1-6 ). In all S&E fields... The federal government supported around 15% of full-time S&E graduate students (82,588 of 543,823
October 05, 2023
References
Archambault É. 2015. Application of an “ Interdisciplinarity ” Metric at the Paper Level and Its Use... Garfield E. 1955. Citation Indexes for Science: A New Dimension in Documentation through Association... Accessed 24 May 2021. Lisée C, Larivière V, Archambault É. 2008. Conference Proceedings as a Source
October 28, 2021
Research and Development Activities
S&E occupations (57%) are engaged in R&D or design activity , as are considerable proportions of those in S&E-related (22%) and non-S&E occupations (18%) (Figure LBR-19), suggesting... S&E or S&E-related occupations. R&D or design activity is defined
August 31, 2021
Industry Employment
Across all education levels, the BLS (2020c) OES data show that industries employ S&E workers at various rates. In 2019, five industry groups with the largest numbers of workers in S&E occupations... S&E employment, compared with one-third
August 31, 2021
Federally and nonfederally funded academic R&D spending, by field: FYs 2013, 2018, and 2023
July 23, 2025
Executive Summary
Key takeaways: The United States remains a highly influential nation in science and engineering (S&E) research as measured by the volume of conference papers and peer-reviewed journal articles... United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Japan) have steadily increased their large base of S&E publications
October 28, 2021
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