In this episode, we take a different approach than usual- we bring a conversation we were having offline with our friend Brian Dilkes about a paper that tries to define the key variables that predict a ‘successful’ faculty member. We talk about some really important flaws of the paper, how to define “success”, and what impact really means and how one could/should/would measure it.

Read more about this episode at https://plantae.org/taproot-podcast-s1-5esessile-measuring-mentoring-and-other-bleeps-with-brian-dilkes/

Show Notes:
Planet Dilkes websites:
https://ag.purdue.edu/cpb/
https://ag.purdue.edu/biochem/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=bdilkes
https://www.purdue.edu/gradschool/pulse/groups/profiles/faculty/dilkes.html
https://twitter.com/BrianDilkes
https://openwetware.org/wiki/Dilkes
The paper we are discussing: https://peerj.com/articles/1262/
Paper that defines success as whether your faculty advisor thought you were successful: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3923635/
Letter Liz and colleagues wrote in response: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4072567/

For those who wish to make the metric the target (DON’T DO IT!!!!):
Liz Google Scholar Page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=L7pWt14AAAAJ&hl=en
Ivan Google Scholar Page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=M68cB1AAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&gmla=AJsN-F6Vs2Z0EJFPnUog3VS8ExzbJsd9xu6_RRBmJm-SoiXtlVV3GXBGmTzqXHLc-enjsrR6JWux3L1oXYkH5tqiBI7FIDdSUFnW-KI320MNnLDDgpCVQRA
Brian Google Scholar Page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Rkx4gSoAAAAJ
https://profiles.impactstory.org/u/0000-0003-2799-954X
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-9293-2012

Twitter handles:
@ BrianDilkes
@ehaswell
@baxterTWI