You easily have enough ideas for another 10 papers. A couple of assistants could build a tenurable record by collarborating with you.

I don’t consider the replies to comments (in essence a reply to a reply to a reply to a paper) to be worth much as publications. In your own words, those were in essence blog back and forth comments. I think you would be better served (and the community better served) by getting some of the analyses here finished up and published. at least those are “replies to papers” if you follow me. Heck, some of them even approach the point of being original work. For instance, the concept of the grass plot and identification of super-trees.

I did send a very short focused note on Polar Urals cross-dating to Nature, who published the original article. They rejected it and said it should go to a specialty journal. I’ll do that. But the obligation to deal with errors in Nature publications is really Nature’s and I had to go through that process. I’ll post that up.

I’ve got a few other things in the works, some of which I should have finished. Look, if I were a 35-year trying to keep score for academic promotions, I’d be worried about academic citations just like young professors are. But, TCO, you’re right and you’ve been right for a long time that I need to write up more articles. But then something like the NAS panel comes along or Wahl & Ammann and these things take a lot of time.

Nothing wrong with having the website as well. But the amount of work that this guy has done without getting it into formal, abstracted results is way out of balance. I also think that some of the rejections and time wasted could be obviated by a tighter submission process and cleaner division of arguments and submitting to the right journals. The mashed up PP presentations show a tendancy to me. It’s not hard to get things published if you divide them up and avoid the kitchen sink tendancy. And follow the procedures and proofread like a nuke engineer. (You’d be surprised how much that helps. Just tell a simple straightforward story and follow the rules.)

I think getting some simpler articles published before writing the review article on statistical methods would both make it more likely that Steve has the academic cred to pull it off…as well as the process will teach him things that will make his review article better–he doesn’t know it all yet!

I think a nice article on statistical methods in paleoclimatology for the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society is exactly what the doctor orders.