Mikko Packalen, University of Waterloo

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NIH funding and the pursuit of edge science.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020 · first author
Age and the Trying Out of New Ideas.
Journal of human capital · 2019 · first author

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2 publications.

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NIH funding and the pursuit of edge science.

Packalen M, Bhattacharya J

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020First author

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1910160117 PMID: 32430336

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Age and the Trying Out of New Ideas.

Packalen M, Bhattacharya J

Journal of human capital2019First author

DOI: 10.1086/703160 PMID: 31435457

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