PI faculty and graduate students might be interesed in the following articles:
Daniel E. Acuna,,Stefano Allesina & Konrad P. Kording Nature 489,201–202(13 September 2012)doi:10.1038/489201a http://quicklinks.library.colostate.edu/?q=sbzrzu (link works for CSU)
DOI 10.1038/489201a
New Formula Beats Citation Index and Can Predict Success, 3 scientists say http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/scientists-offer-new-formula-to-predict-career-success/30912
J. E. Hirsch. Does the h index have predictive power? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 104 no. 49 19193–19198, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707962104