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What are your two biggest accomplishments?

3 thoughts on “What are your two biggest accomplishments?”

  1. D. Eppstein says:

    NSF Proposals use this system (or at least a variant of this system): list five relevant publications and five additional publications). I’m told that applications for national academy membership do also.

  2. I think that “h-index” partially addresses this problem.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch_number

  3. Sérgio: I don’t think it does actually. To have a high h-index you need to have many average papers. Plus, the h-index still counts papers, just differently.

    I say we forgo paper counting altogether. Just tell the world what your biggest accomplishments are. That is all. It helps if they were peer reviewed.