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Does anyone have an estimate of the difference between research output from calico versus institutions in academia? It would be interesting to see where they ra

• cottonseed 7y ago
  Here's the first ranking Google turned up: the nature biomedical sciences index: https://www.natureindex.com/supplements/nature-index-2019-biomedical-sciences/index https://www.natureindex.com/supplements/nature-index-2019-bi... Harvard, the top biomedical institution, gets a score of 2,312.65. Alphabet (Calico isn't broken out), the #18th corporate institution, gets a 13.98, basically below all the major pharma companies. It wouldn't make the list of top 200 institutions overall. I didn't look closely at methodology, but it looks like it's counting publications in nature journals but doesn't weight for impact, which would surely up weight more prestigious institutions. That said, Alphabet/Calico/Verily's primary goal isn't necessarily to publish. disclosure: I work at The Broad Institute (#66 institution, ha)
  • pen2l 7y ago
    When it says Harvard, I assume it includes the entire Harvard network, including BI, MGH, BWH, etc. in which the case it's not that impressive. I'm pretty sure any lab at the Broad is way more efficient than the average lab in the Harvard network. And Calico is not playing games to get published, like the typical lab in academia does.
• mjfl 7y ago
  They have the same output as maybe a mid-size lab with maybe 15 postdocs and 15 grad students or something like that.