Academic life is complicated: you collaborate with others, do research for years, analyze the information, write a draft and at the end when you manage to publish in a high-impact journal, you have to start selling it as a snake-oil salesman to get citations, at least in my field of expertise, economics and finance. Then you have to write it very clearly on your Curriculum, not to pass unnoticed when you opt for an academic vacancy. Because we professors in general get lost a bit in these issues whereas the people on the other side are not academic publishing experts.
http://howtopublishinjournals.com/2014/01/26/how-to-highlight-your-relevant-publications-in-your-curriculum-vitae/
I agree with Monica. Specialist in particular discipline usually know each other works and achievements. From the other hand bibliometrics is not easy, but it is part of our knowledge, experience, and career. There will be a lot of new "jargon" introduced, I'm afraid.
Excellent thought. I think it should be worth highlighting in CV / conferences etc given the ocean full of poor / bogus academic publishers. A ton of (predatory) journal publishers these days are only as good as you taking a domain name at godaddy.com and uploading your papers claiming fake research repute.
I am not sure if giving the impact factor in your CV is necessary at all. Normally, researchers in a particular discipline, knows the impact factor of the journals in their own disciplines. Although administrative departments play some role in selection process, it is really the department chair's call why they want to recommend for hiring.
Although I agree with the fact that one strive to work hard to publish and update their CV, mentioning the impact factor is a over kill.
Please review my online CV: http://pandi-perumal.blogspot.com
Everyone would know what I have published. Additionally, there are so many academic links that a perspective employer can have a look. For example, visit my googlescholar profile:
It clearly gives how popular my articles and how many people have cited it:
http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=MO90ZXkAAAAJ&hl=en
Look at my researchgate profile:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pandi-Perumal_Seithikurippu_Ratnas
Researchgate provides IF for some of the journals. Eventually everything will be covered at some point.
There are so many ways researcher's potentials are estimated.
So, my argument would be giving IF in someone's CV, might not be a good idea. It might even work against during selection process. In cases wherein two candidates with equal standing; one has mentioned his IF and other didn't. It depends on the selection committee to assume that the other candidate is better or he might be more than the candidate actually mentioned his IFs.
Just a thought.....
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