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Personal Statements

Personal Statements is a genre of academic writing that serves as a formal narrative submitted by applicants to educational institutions, distinguished by its focus on articulating an individual’s intellectual trajectory, scholarly motivations, and personal qualifications in support of admission to advanced study or research programs.

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5.4K

Citations

307

Authors

181

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

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Variants

Personal Statement

Parents

Publications

105

Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

Meghnad Desai · International Affairs · 1980 · 724 citations

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Naturalism and Prescriptivity

Peter Railton · Social Philosophy and Policy · 1989 · 322 citations

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Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

Michael Bradfield, Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman · Canadian Public Policy · 1982 · 275 citations

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Pilot study of the roles of personality, references, and personal statements in relation to performance over the five years of a medical degreeCommentary: How to derive causes from correlations in educational studies

Eamonn Ferguson, I. C. McManus, David James et al. · BMJ · 2003 · 240 citations · Full text

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Trusting What You Know: Information, Knowledge, and Confidence in Social Security

Fay Lomax Cook, Lawrence R. Jacobs, Dukhong Kim · The Journal of Politics · 2010 · 197 citations

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Authors

307

  1. CR
    Cheryl Regehr

    University of Toronto, Canada

    2 publications · 75 citations

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  2. HM
    Hermann Maurer

    Graz University of Technology, Austria

    2 publications · 85 citations

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  3. CS
    Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey

    London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 81 citations

    2

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  4. NY
    Nora Y. Osman

    Brigham and Women's Hospital, United States

    2 publications · 81 citations

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  5. IC
    I. C. McManus

    University College London, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 265 citations

    2

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Institutions

181

  1. Brigham and Women's Hospital

    Boston, United States

    4 h-index

    14 publications

    622 citations

  2. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    805 citations

  3. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    359 citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    3 h-index

    10 publications

    350 citations

  5. Purdue University West Lafayette

    West Lafayette, United States

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    325 citations

  6. University of Nottingham

    Nottingham, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    8 publications

    1.2K citations

  7. West Virginia University

    Morgantown, United States

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    168 citations

  8. Cleveland Clinic

    Cleveland, United States

    2 h-index

    10 publications

    230 citations

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Venues

  1. Medical Education

    5 publications · 216 citations

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  2. Journal of Graduate Medical Education

    4 publications · 127 citations

    4

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  3. Journal of English for Academic Purposes

    3 publications · 91 citations

    3

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  4. BMC Medical Education

    3 publications · 107 citations

    3

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  5. Journal of surgical education

    JSE · 4 publications · 110 citations

    3

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