Seemingly missed identity of a scientist

摘要

I read the Guest Editorial 1 with great in-terest. The events narrated in the column are about the travails of a start-up scientist in his quest for identity. As the article points out, a positive outcome of the efforts invested hinges on the output measured in terms of the number of peer-reviewed publications preferably, if I may add, in journals with high impact factor ratings. This approach appears to be more or less globally accepted and therefore, is the only route to a scientist’s upward climb. Quite predictably, if the measured output is low or not visible, the individual suffers from an internal crisis and the events naturally lead to depression.