I just saw somebody, a peer, put their h-index in their CV. I'm not going to lie, I'm a little bit disturbed — "are they actually OK?"-level disturbed. Wow... 
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Replying to @o_guest
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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Replying to @psmaldino @o_guest
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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Replying to @psmaldino @o_guest
I don't know what your dept's ads look like, but if they say 'REF ready' 'excellence in research' and other buzz words, it seems likely they're asking for something specific. Selecting contrary to stated criteria is not cool, given the hours ECRs spend applying.
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And advertising for a given team? That's damn hard too, because my goal is to *get a job*, and tbh, I can't afford to be that picky.
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I don't know what 'REF ready' means. But "excellence in research" != high h-index. My department recently offered a job to the interviewee with the fewest publications, because the work was so original. I totally get the struggles of the job market, but FIT is super important.
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Replying to @psmaldino @o_guest
REF is a UK thing, sadly. And I know fit is important (because there's so many job with these buzz words I don't apply for). Did your job ad correspond with the real hiring criteria, tho? Perhaps a more constructive question is: what do you look for when looking for fit?
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Yeah, I use that on my CV in the UK. Also, citation counts & I've been known to pull out the m-index! Also, they care about REF & impact for promotion so all these metrics are used. These are just small indications to a wider concept intended to grade people.
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This was a public CV that could have had anything on it and they chose to keep the h-index. I see they did it because they had to for internal stuff, I guess.
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