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Category: Job Market
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In our most recent "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: Do people check the download counts on other people's papers on Philpapers and websites of journals that have those metrics? I wonder if people think or know that someone might check that kind of thing when evaluating a job candidate, or if…
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In most recent "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: When should I consider editing a special issue for a journal? It would be on a topic that I work on. Do only well-established, senior people do these, or can junior scholars also edit special issues? Is there any reason to do it…
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In most recent "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: I know hiring committees do not look favorably upon publications in low quality journals, but is the same true for teaching/adjuncting experience at low ranking colleges? I currently have no teaching experience and my department lost my TA teaching evaluations. My postdoc in…
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In most recent "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: How do internal hires work in the U.S.? I've noticed some people starting jobs at universities without the positions being posted (at least to my knowledge). Hmm…I was of the understanding that jobs need to be posted for legal reasons (presumably to satisfy…