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A Quantitative Fitness Analysis Workflow
Published on: August 13, 2012
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Author Correction: Quantifying hierarchy and dynamics in US faculty hiring and retention
K Hunter Wapman1, Sam Zhang2, Aaron Clauset3,4,5
1Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA. hunter.wapman@colorado.edu.
Nature
|July 5, 2023
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