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Can publication records predict future PIs?

The odds of a scientist becoming an academic principal investigator (PI) can be predicted with publication data, according to Lucas Carey from Spain’s Pompeu Fabra University and his colleagues.

The team developed an online tool, dubbed PIPredictor, which uses a machine-learning approach to analyze a user’s PubMed data and that has already churned out more than 800 career-success estimates to date. Carey and his colleagues describe their tool in Current Biology.