COMPASS: Navigating the Rules of Scientific Engagement

COMPASS shares a decade of experience in helping scientists become effective leaders by navigating a path from outreach to meaningful engagement with journalists and policymakers.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  PLoS Biology

• Publication date

  2013-04-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001552PMID 23637575PMCID 3640098
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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