criteria from an AfD When judging based on a borderline publication record I look not just at the count of publications and of citations but the journals in which they were published Judging by the CV in this case they are basically very good specialized journals the leading ones but only in narrow fields There are known in the most widely read and most rigorously refereed biology or science journals even one of the papers being in Nature or PNAS would have made this a weak keep If I had to give evidence for that being a good criterion I learned this from the provost at Princeton in a talk explaining the criteria he uses DGG talk