title: An analysis of doctoral dissertations on aging written in institutions of higher learning in the United States, 1969 to 1975.
abstract: This paper updates the 1971 Moore and Birren study using productivity of doctoral dissertations as an indicator of professional and research training in the field of aging. In comparison with the earlier study, in this current study, 1969 to 1975, there has been a marked increase in aging related titles in the social and health sciences and a drop in aging related titles in psychology with the biological sciences remaining about the same. Geographically, the three states with the largest elderly populations also have the largest productivity of dissertations in aging.
mesh_terms: D004212:Academic Dissertations as Topic; D000375:Aging; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities