A new Northwestern University School Medicine Chicago 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. 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. Read more here.
Study mentioned: Acuna DE, et al. Future impact: Predicting scientific success. Nature. 2012 Sep 13;489(7415):201-2. PMID: 22972278
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