check-your-advisorlisted

# Check Your Advisor You are choosing a PhD or master's advisor. You have a name, a lab page written by the lab, and no way to check any of it. This reads what PubMed records about that person and reports it back as facts with denominators. It answers six questions from PubMed alone: - who has appeared in this group - who the first-author slots went to - how long a newcomer waits before getting one - how long people stay before they stop appearing - where the PI sits in their own bylines - how much comes out per year, and whether it goes to the same few journals And two more once you supply a table it cannot fetch: what those journals are rated in the edition you looked them up in, and how many people finished a degree here without a single indexed paper — the one group every question above is blind to. ## What it will and will not tell you **It does not say whether the advisor is good.** That judgement stays yours. Four different things stand behind that one sentence and they are not the same kind of statement: one is a measurement, one is a decision, one is a file you have not fetched yet, and one is a fact about the world that no file repairs. **Computed, and written to disk.** Citation counts and an h-index: `cite` fetches the counts from OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar or Europe PMC into their own dated file and Section 15 computes on them. One composite score out of 100 (Section 16). And on a `compare` page, three things an earlier version of this tool refused and tha