Oh, god, there's also some weird "slips" in this CV too. Why do I always notice things that are verifiably wrong in people's CVs? Makes me think everybody's CV has these "oopsies" (i.e., skewed towards making the person look a little/lot better) & prob even more than I can see...
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If anything it makes me question people's judgement and their mentors.
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I feel the same about the inclusion of a passport style photo on the front of the CV;-)
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That's a nasty habit, yep.
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It's not nasty at all. In some parts of the world it is expected. Keep in mind that some departments want different things and there are regional conventions for all parts of a CV. Photos, impact factors, h-indicies, in prep papers.... there is no right or wrong.
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It has a pretty nasty history. Also it could cost you the job, be careful.
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I personally dont use it. My point is that perhaps the person is not doing it for the reasons you think they are.
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CVs are often made with particular purposes in mind. Some applications (eg for jobs or promotions) ask for silly info.
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Yeah, should have clarified this was the one they chose to put on their website.
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I can't recall if mine has an h-index on it, but I often just put the last one I made on the website...
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Yeah, it's fair enough. I had no idea they ask (implicitly) for h-index on CV.
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Yeah, it is funny - you can get hired at a Uni without mentioning your h-index, but promotion guidelines at that same Uni may require e.g. an h-index, in spite of the fact that they have *more* info about your *actual performance*. Management.
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I think my h made it onto my CV for this reason: I had to fill out some thing or other that wanted it there. So I put it on. It’s about as meaningful as where I have my first guest lecture to an undergrad class, but that’s probably on the CV too somewhere
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I admit I added it *once* as part of a grant application where everyone else in the grant had included the h-index; just to show I actually had one!
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I’ve seen this several times. It always makes me sad, but incentives to flaunt metrics like h-index are still widespread.
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I must admit I do it, because every job ad I look at says you gotta demonstrate impact and talk about the REF etc ad naseum. I mean, I'd prefer people read my papers, but if I gotta persuade you that I have impact in the space of a sentence, I use the metric.
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I get it, but just be advised that when people like me get a CV like that, including those stats probably *lowers* your chance of an interview. Unfair? Yep. Job placement is largely about assortment, though, so signal for the kind of team you want to be on.
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Why? (... it lowers... ) (I am not in academia; and I am not on the market; but I thought h-index is a commonly recognized measure of... something... especially in physics where it was... uhm, invented. But since everybody seem to nod in agreement with OG, I am missing it out.)
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I don't think that many replies agree with me. Some replies, quite a few, seem to think it's a "OK fair enough" requirement.
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Some do, some don’t. Still... why is this bad? (Proper scientists would also recognize measurement error issue: google scholar citations != scopus != research gate that probably nobody takes seriously.)
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"Bad" is a weird word to use here.
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