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Does a doctoral degree pay off? An empirical analysis of rates of return of German doctorate holders

Overview of attention for article published in Higher Education, December 2012
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Title
Does a doctoral degree pay off? An empirical analysis of rates of return of German doctorate holders
Published in
Higher Education, December 2012
DOI 10.1007/s10734-012-9600-x
Authors

Anne Mertens, Heinke Röbken

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Portugal 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Italy 1 1%
Czechia 1 1%
Serbia 1 1%
Unknown 80 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 15%
Researcher 13 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 15%
Student > Master 12 14%
Student > Bachelor 7 8%
Other 15 18%
Unknown 12 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 29 34%
Business, Management and Accounting 15 18%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 13 15%
Psychology 7 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 1%
Other 5 6%
Unknown 15 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 May 2021.
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#14,545,040
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Outputs from Higher Education
#1,111
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Outputs of similar age
#170,449
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Outputs of similar age from Higher Education
#6
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