A couple of months ago I had a brief chat with a grad school colleague. He recently published a paper in which his name was second but had the ole’ asterisk next to it indicating he and the listed first author had made an equal contribution. He then made the comment that it didn’t really [...]
Archive for February, 2012
I was chatting with one of my postdoc colleagues over lunch about citation metrics and papers etc, and he asked the following question: “What would you rather have: a paper published in Nature and cited 4 times in the first year or a paper published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry cited 50 times in [...]
