As a former physicist I find this all quite bewildering. My thesis advisor got his Nobel prize for two papers, on just one of which he was first (and sole) author. The third author on the other paper also got a Nobel just for co-authoring that paper. Another chap I know got his Nobel prize for a single paper that he wrote while still a grad student which was published in a non-refereed journal. But that was back in the days when quality, creativity and importance of the research were the factors that mattered. Was that ever the case in ecology?
To put it another way, if Lindemann had survived, could he get a job in today's market? Bill Silvert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris MacQuarrie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 6:08 PM Subject: Re: Number of times cited in a CV? > All, > > Nature published a news article related to this issue last week (with > apologies to those without access); Achievement index climbs the ranks > Nature 448, 737 (16 August 2007) | doi:10.1038/448737a . > > It discusses the rise of the Hirsch index or "h-index" as a measure of > research productivity and its ability to predict a young researcher's > future output. This index is, quoting the article, "...the number n > of a researcher's papers that have all received at least n citations". > > e.g.) if I have 5 first author papers each cited 5 times by other > authors, my H-index would be 5,..
