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There is no relationship between winning proposals and phase change time. Don't worry about these things You might br right, but the way I understand it, if you switch to ranking (either early or late) it means that you have at the very least crossed the first threshold (your score is >70%)! Not th...

Reading through all the replies, I am wondering about productivity measurement. Is it just the number of publications or will the number and amount of previous grants, including grants for conference travel, conference presentations, awards/prizes, etc. be taken into account? Additionally, as such ...

Reading through all the replies, I am wondering about productivity measurement. Is it just the number of publications or will the number and amount of previous grants, including grants for conference travel, conference presentations, awards/prizes, etc. be taken into account? Additionally, as such a...

Yeah, that makes sense. Since publication record is dependent on a lot of factors: country in which PhD was carried out, funding that was available, the field of study, career stage, personal circumstances, etc. I can only hope that reviewers are aware of all these constraints that ECRs deal with a...

Lottery seems to imply all applications have equal chance of being granted. I assume there is a clear set of standard rubrics for evaluation. For all well-written applications that meet all the criteria, there could still be a chance factor. There could be practically little difference between 4.4 ...

Hi all. I had just joined for a postdoc position last year, immediately after finishing my PhD. At the time of the MSCA application, I had one first-author and one middle-author paper. I have been a bit worried about publication record affecting MSCA outcome. I looked through previous discussions o...

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Hi all. I had just joined for a postdoc position last year, immediately after finishing my PhD. At the time of the MSCA application, I had one first-author and one middle-author paper. I have been a bit worried about publication record affecting MSCA outcome. I looked through previous discussions on...