evaluating a publication record

[chef]

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i know a lab is more than its publication record, but if you looked at this record for the last 3 yrs, how would you rate it? i'm only posting ones that have the PI as the senior (last) author and first authors are either postdocs or grad students. lab uses yeast as study model and has about 12 people.
thanks!

currently 2 manuscripts in preparation
Mol Biol Cell. 2003 Feb;14
Cell Struct Funct. 2002 Dec;27:.
Dev Cell. 2002 Dec;3:.
Eukaryot Cell. 2002 Feb;1. Review
J Biol Chem. 2003 Feb 14;
Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2002
J Biol Chem. 2002 Dec 6;
J Biol Chem. 2002 Aug 16;
Mol Biol Cell. 2001 Dec;12
J Biol Chem. 2002 Jan 4;
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 2001 Sep;
Traffic. 2001 Aug;2(8). Review
Mol Cell. 2001 Jun
J Biol Chem. 2001 Aug
J Cell Biol. 2001 Apr
J Biol Chem. 2001 Jun
J Cell Biol. 2001
Science. 2000 Review
J Cell Biol. 2000 Nov
J Biol Chem. 2001 Jan
Annu Rev Biochem. 2000
Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2000
J Biol Chem. 2000 Aug
Int Rev Cytol. 2000
Mol Biol Cell. 2000
J Biol Chem. 2000
J Cell Biol. 2000

 

[Doctor&Geek]

OK,

So a scavenger hunt finds this guy is

Daniel J. Klionsky, Professor, University of Michigan.

A good rule of thumb is that if one publishes a review in Science and Annual Reviews of anything, you're famous.

This guy publishes very often for the number of people he has in the lab - which leads me to believe that

a) this field is super competitive, and pubs need to go out quick

b) publications combined might be able to make it to a better journal (cell, etc.).

c) it proves that yeast is easy to work with and can net papers quickly.

Still, he has plenty of MBCs, JCBs, and Molecular Cells. Damn good work, I'd say for a guy that publishes 8 papers a year. This is 1 paper per person per year, which is mad fast.

Personally, I would find the subject of vesicular transport in yeast to be really boring, but if it floats your boat, you can't go wrong with potentially getting 3 papers in quality journals quickly like this guy has.

Best of luck,

Jason

 

[Adcadet]

yeah, but what does the future look like?

I once worked with a good PI with a very nice track record, but six months later his two major grant proposals that were out got rejected (he was trying to get into a new area), leaving him with little budget and no really cool experiments for me to do (as promised). Needless to say, I was very disappointed, felt a bit deceived, and quickly moved on.

 

[psyuk]

what no cell, science (reviews don't count) or nature?
just kidding.

what that list of pubs is telling me is that his lab has a particular set of yeast library that's being exploited to pump out as many pubs as possible using the same protocol over and over. that's good if you are an MD/PhD or PhD student since the quality really doesnt matter at this level. but i would not join his lab as a postdoc since i would be gunning for cell and science.

 

[whodenie]

Here is one way to find out how a lab stands at least from the dollars side of the coin.

http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/

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