It does. They say they take into account the experience you have at the time of application. People with less than a few years of postdoc experience usually have less publications, although it really depends on the field you're in. They cant be compared with professors, for example.MSCA-IF-EF-RI-2020 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 12:03 pm
I don't have a particularly good publishing record, one first author paper in eLife and a couple of papers as a middle author. But the emphasis of this fellowship is on training, so I don't think the publishing record has a sizeable role in the whole process.
Good luck everyone!
Another factor is the field you're in. For eg particle physicists and several astronomers work in huge collaborations and they usually have many collaboration papers, sometimes order of 30 by the time they complete their first postdoc if not their PhD. Meanwhile, a physicist who doesn't work in huge a collaboration may not have that many papers and must rely on their first author, technical reports and conference proceedings. Its not easy to publish a quality paper in a reputed journal without actually working hard.
Both my advisor and co-advisor always says whats in the paper in more important than how many you can publish. I totally agree with them. But again, I guess it depends on what you are working on. Ana agains opinions can vary by a lot.
