Impact Factor versus Academic Jobs Leonid Teytelman 10.6084/m9.figshare.783894.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/presentation/Impact_Factor_versus_Academic_Jobs/783894 <p>A quick analysis, performed in 2007, to measure the correlation between the journal impact factor where researcher publishes and the probabiilty of getting a faculty job.</p> <p>The proxy metric for the postdoc-to-professor transition is a switch from being a first author one year to being a last author on publications in subsequent years (first-to-last transition).</p> <p>The main finding is that despite a clear correlation between the journal impact factor and how likely the authors from that journal were to transition to last-author later, there are outliers such as PLOS Biology and PNAS.</p> 2013-08-29 16:32:32 Open Access Impact Factor plos cns Anesthesiology Physiology Pharmacology Developmental Biology Molecular Biology Neuroscience Cell Biology Genetics Anatomy Behavioral Neuroscience Hematology Bioinformatics Ecology Cardiology Microbiology Medicine Biophysics Biological Engineering Toxicology Immunology Biotechnology Evolutionary Biology Pathology Virology Computational Biology Botany Cancer Parasitology Marine Biology Infectious Diseases Plant Biology Paleontology