New formula predicts if scientists will be starsA new Northwestern Medicine study offers the first f
New formula predicts if scientists will be starsA new Northwestern Medicine study offers the first formula that accurately predicts a young scientist’s success up to 10 years into the future and could be useful for hiring and funding decisions.Currently, hiring decisions are made using the instincts and research of search committees. Universities are increasingly complementing this with a measure of the quality and quantity of papers published, called the h index.But the new formula is more than twice as accurate as the h index for predicting future success for researchers in the life sciences. It considers other important factors that contribute to a scientist’s trajectory including the number of articles written, the current h index, the years since publishing the first article, the number of distinct journals one has published in and the number of articles in high impact journals. -- source link
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