If graduate students can publish papers based on your data three weeks after they first see your data, then surely you are slacking off if you can only publish

If graduate students can publish papers based on your data three weeks after they first see your data, then surely you are slacking off if you can only publish one paper every 6 months. More plausibly, if your data is that apparent, - you publish your first paper with your data, this takes 6 months from submission to publication - you submit a paper every three weeks (also with your data) during that 6 months. that totals 8 papers before your article and data hit the press - after your paper is published, it is 6 weeks before anybody fully gets the data - during that time you submit your other two papers - the grad students you mentioned now submit 8 papers, but are forced to cite your work You now have 10 papers submitted before the competition and have 10-20 papers being submitted that cites your data and work. Total elapsed time = 14 months. Sounds much better than your 5 year scheme.