> But I have never seen anyone's career affected by which journals they review for. It might happen, but if it does then it's news to me. Oh they absolutely ar

> But I have never seen anyone's career affected by which journals they review for. It might happen, but if it does then it's news to me. Oh they absolutely are. Academic CVs are full of listings of which program committees you're on. You start being a member of a committee for a smallish conference (in programming language research, something like VEE or PLaS), then try to move up to a few medium size ones (CC, perhaps), and finally you make it to being on the program committees of the top top journals (PLDI or POPL). I decided not to go down the academic career path after doing my PhD, but it was pretty plain even to a PhD student that being on good program committees is part of your career progression.