Postdoc Publications

 The LANL fellows did a study of the declining number publications at the lab. This also showed the decline of publications of the postdocs.

Now and new publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that postdoc publications in terms of number of papers and impact is associated with the long term success in science.

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v18/34?utm_campaign=weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=emailalert

For many researchers, the postdoctoral fellowship is a way station between graduate school and a permanent job. Now Bedoor AlShebli of New York University, Petter Holme of Aalto University in Finland, and their collaborators have revealed that, despite the position’s transience, the quantity and quality of a researcher’s postdoc publications are a strong predictor of whether the researcher stays in academia and, if they do, how productive the researcher will be as a faculty member [1]. The findings have implications for faculty hiring and postdoc welfare, say AlShebli and Holme.