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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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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