Ron Vale: "Evaluating how we evaluate"

Ron Vale's opinion piece in Molecular Biology of the Cell (2012) is worth a read. It concerns mostly how scientists are evaluated and articulates clearly the problems with, e.g., judging a scientist by their number of publications in "high impact" journals, judging a PI by the number of publications or of postdocs with faculty positions. There are many valid points in there as well as a few suggestions for the NIH.

http://valelab.ucsf.edu/external/publications/2012ValeMBOC.pdf