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Re:What principal investigators taught me about my failure t... by in_cahoots on Friday February 15, 2019 @03:36PM (#19174479)
I’m also from another field, but 19 papers and 5 first-author papers over 23 years is a huge red flag. Many graduate students wind up with 3-4 first-author papers by the time they graduate. I don’t know what he was doing with his time, but the publication record seems to be the elephant in the room.
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Re:What principal investigators taught me about my failure t... by lijason on Friday February 15, 2019 @04:04PM (#19174694)
To be fair, even though it seems low, paper output/metrics are very field dependent.
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Re:What principal investigators taught me about my failure t... by Fomite on Friday February 15, 2019 @06:59PM (#19175953)
I'm close enough to their field to say that that's a really low number.
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Re:What principal investigators taught me about my failure t... by rubidium on Friday February 15, 2019 @03:48PM (#19174570)
Agreed. I don't know if this applies to the article author, but I've met a few "lifestyle" post-docs. They do just enough to keep in the system, but don't rise above that (either capability or motivation).
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