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I review journal and examine theses manuscripts. Sometimes I don't think supervisors do justice, sometimes you wonder if the manuscript was even read by the senior co-authors. Once I had to heavily criticize supervisors of a Masters study for not doing their job.
It is unethical to not provide your best supervisory service, yet score when students graduate and publish, in terms of career growth and publication incentives.
Sometimes a senior academic would have so many students that it is impractical to thoroughly supervise all of them.
Also I think sometimes academics forget that being a research grant holder doesn't mean that your name MUST appear in every paper produced within the grant.
It helps no one, in fact it is damaging to just churn out high number of students that are not properly trained.
I recommend that before taking a student as a supervisor, offer them an opportunity to talk to your current or previous students so they can get a supervisee sense of who you are. Your awards and h index may not reflect that you are a skelm/deputy-god.
