Hivemind: Were you (or someone you know!) part of a faculty search committee that encouraged applicants to submit preprints? I'd love to hear general comments about how this impacted the process. #ASAPbio
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Of course, the best committees I've sat on in other areas also didn't much discuss journal or impact factor, but rather the actual research work done. Not always true, alas.
(One curiosity: until I started working on open science, I'd barely ever heard impact factor mentioned seriously in hiring. Though I had heard people talk a lot about the "quality" of journals. I wonder how field-dependent interest in impact factor is?)
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It certainly is. The are no IFs for humanities journals; physics, maths and computer science are more focussed in preprints and conference papers. It's probably strongest in chemistry, life sciences and parts of social science.
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Also, feel free to dive into the data of our 2015-16 survey of 20K researchers and others worldwide answering a.o. the question what tools they use for journal selection and for measuring impact: https://101innovations.wordpress.com/survey-2015-2016/ …
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Or how widespread the assumption that quality is synonymous with higher IF ;-)
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