<p>“In the biomedical sciences it’s real easy to go on PubMed or other similar database websites and type in a given professor’s name and see everything s/he has published in peer-reviewed journals. This makes it easy to see where the productive labs and departments are.”</p>
<p>It also can give a sense of how much a given lab is involved with the industry (joint publications with biotechs/pharma). Labs that have good industrial ties often place their newly-minted PhDs in industry through those connections.</p>