For example, during the last decade I have had numerous opportunities to meet some of the scientists whose publications I had been translating into English, was offered a 3-year assignment as manager of a Department of Energy program in Moscow due to my language abilities, and have worked on several U.S.-Russian joint programs at the national laboratory.
For scientists, a publication in the big three is basically a licence to print money.
So Tercek — Kareiva silently by his side — began by apologizing for the tone of his chief scientist's publications, and by acknowledging that he was the odd man out in the room.
Based on new data, this paper studies the invention disclosure, licensing, and spin-off activities of Max Planck Institute directors over the time period 1985–2004, analyzing their effects on the scientists' subsequent publication and citation records.
Open-access journals give free access to readers and pay their bills by charging scientists a publication fee, while traditional journals charge subscribers or libraries.
But old ideas (and ways) die hard, and a scientist's publications and grant-writing success often matter more in a hiring decision than those other, less measurable skills.
And being beaten to publication is a huge loss for a scientist, as publications are the currency of academic science--they are an important factor in competing for government and private grant funds and in obtaining tenure and respect in a discipline.
Hirsch's index depends on both the number of a scientist's publications and the number of citations for each paper.
One of the important components of any scientific investigation is dissemination of information to other scientists through publication of the results in a suitable journal; therefore, we submitted a manuscript covering part of the study to EHP.
Computational biologist David van Dijk talks with Science about his new mathematical career model based on a scientist's publication record which, he says, can foretell the researcher's odds of becoming principal investigator of a research group.
