Recent publications tracked small micromeres as they moved from the vegetal pole to the coelomic pouches (Yajima and Wessel, 2012; Campanale et al., 2014).
Meanwhile, the other writers fell into various categories of seriousness — based partly on publication track record — and, of course, we sniffed out the pretenders right away, lest we be confused with them.
Currently the major yardstick by which postdocs are judged is their publication track record, as there generally are no formal performance appraisals for postdocs.
Instead of passing along the names of their top people, most professors referred us to their hard-to-place postdocs: those with poor publication track records or those who had been looking for a job for far too long.
After all, I earned my Ph.D. at a renowned institute, I had a good publication track record, and my background and work experience during my doctorate were relevant to the laboratory where I wanted to work.
We should also mention that PNAS offers a streamlined publication track ('contributed paper') for select US National Academy of Sciences members, an additional idiosyncratic and rare pathway, which nevertheless contributes to the surprisingly large number of scientists that have numerous publications in the Nat./PNAS/Sci./PNAS/Sci
(Note that until recently, even the US National Academy of Sciences had such a publication track for members).
Here, we examined whether referees with different publication track records report different recommended rejection rates when reviewing.
We followed their subsequent publication track record, as detailed on The Web of Science (Thomson Scientific USA, http://scientific.thomson.com/products/wos/), until the end of 2005, counting both the number of publications and the number of citations that each of those papers received.
Publication is likely to have an impact on the sustainability of the research careers of team members by building a publication track record.
