Review article outdated if not published quickly?

[tiedyeddog]

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I'm not desperate for getting my name on a pub, so no one crucify me.... I already have a 2nd author in an alright journal...

Anyway, I've been thinking about writing a review article in my area of research. I'm pretty up to date on literature in my field as of now think I could write a decent review article.

However, my PI has a super, super awful track record of getting his student's and posdocs paper's published. He currently is holding ~7 papersm with some being about a year old, that he is doing "final revisions on", aka not doing anything with them. He's weird about it, don't ask.

Anyway, if he held a review article I wrote for a year would it then be worthless by the time he submitted it? (Also, I asked him if I could write one and he said go for it.)

 

[mercaptovizadeh]

I'm not desperate for getting my name on a pub, so no one crucify me.... I already have a 2nd author in an alright journal...

Anyway, I've been thinking about writing a review article in my area of research. I'm pretty up to date on literature in my field as of now think I could write a decent review article.

However, my PI has a super, super awful track record of getting his student's and posdocs paper's published. He currently is holding ~7 papersm with some being about a year old, that he is doing "final revisions on", aka not doing anything with them. He's weird about it, don't ask.

Anyway, if he held a review article I wrote for a year would it then be worthless by the time he submitted it? (Also, I asked him if I could write one and he said go for it.)

You have to wonder how valuable a review is if it becomes outdated in a year. The point of a review article is not to include every detail, but to talk about the basics and then touch on some details. The golden part are the references that permit you to go down a particular 'detail avenue' of interest. If the review is "worthless" in 5 years time, much less 1 year, it's probably not a very good review to begin with.

Generally, also stay away from PIs who refuse to publish in a timely manner.

 

[tiedyeddog]

Generally, also stay away from PIs who refuse to publish in a timely manner.

The grad students and post-docs can't figure out why he does this.... Is there some strategic reasoning some PI's wait so long to publish stuff? He is holding papers in different topics so it's not a case-by-case thing... He takes super long on ALL manuscripts...


Seems counter-intuitive.....