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yup! I think brand is the ultimate validation metric (in that sense I think you're both agreeing). For an academic career, perhaps journals are the primary path to brand. But if the goal is just "research that people pay attention to", you suddenly have more options
I just mean that if you sit in an academic hiring meeting, or are helping decide on grants, 9 out of 10 people will usually be concerned with things like “how good a journal is that”? Etc. It’s a bad system, but it’s how much hiring works.
An amusing fact is that organizations which go beyond that can do very well for themselves. I can think of a few hires where (a) they did badly by standard metrics; but (b) someone crucial in the org truly engaged with the actual work, ignoring the metrics.
Yeah this reminds me of a hiring/recruiting tip. Basically, it is good to ignore certain signals like top tier university and impressive job history not because they aren't good signals, but because everyone is aware of them. Better if you can identify diamonds in the rough
Do you see independent research as the route out of this? Eventually, enough independent reserachers circumvent the traditional route, develop their own brand, and academia begins to see this as a viable path?
Just considering journal ranking means then they don't have to look into what the candidate actually researched..
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