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| From Rumors to Facts: Career Outcomes of English Ph. Ds Results from the Ph. D.'s Ten Years Later Study. M Nerad, J Cerny Communicator 32 (7), 1999 | 66 | 1999 |
| The Institution Cares: Berkeley's Efforts To Support Dissertation Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences. M Nerad, DS Miller New Directions for Higher Education 99, 75-90, 1997 | 66 | 1997 |
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| Social science PhDs, five+ years out: a national survey of PhDs in six fields: highlights report M Nerad Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education, College of …, 2007 | 61 | 2007 |
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| Increase in PhD production and reform of doctoral education worldwide M Nerad Research Institute for Higher Education Hiroshima University 7, 769, 2010 | 58 | 2010 |
