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>"publish or perish" and the fact that survival and job advancement depend on quantity over quality of publications. I mean, kind of but not really. Any acade

>"publish or perish" and the fact that survival and job advancement depend on quantity over quality of publications. I mean, kind of but not really. Any academic of even marginal skill can smell a padded CV from a mile away. The type that do this are not serious people and will waste your time and resources. Knowing how to identify an imposter is a survival trait. Usually the type to pad a CV with garbage are eyeing admin or corporate gigs, not academic success. A search committee or tenure committee wouldn't look too kindly at a bunch of wacky papers in the east austrian journal of ass-scratch. Yes there is huge demand to be published, but quality matters a lot if you intend to seriously participate in the scientific community.

pvaldes 3y ago
> Any academic of even marginal skill can smell a padded CV from a mile away A couple drops of "Eau de Népotisme" and the smell goes away miraculously. Torturing your job requisites so only the desired local candidate can apply is a way to "solve" it.
- cycomanic 3y ago
  In my experience this happens very rarely. In most places that I'm aware of, there is a very strong aversion to hiring local candidates for tenured (or tenure track) positions. For example, in Germany it is extremely rare to become a professor at the. University where you did your phd/postdoc. It's almost always seen a something not quite right. Now there is still lots of politics involved in the hiring process. Tenured positions are rare and often the other academics on the committee want to candidates which strengthen their own research area (although interestingly if there is a colleague down the corridor or someone at a university half way around the world who can do some technique you require, collaboration is much more likely to happen with the external person)
  - pvaldes 3y ago
    Is inversely proportional to the scarcity of the resources available

pvaldes 3y ago

> Any academic of even marginal skill can smell a padded CV from a mile away A couple drops of "Eau de Népotisme" and the smell goes away miraculously. Torturing your job requisites so only the desired local candidate can apply is a way to "solve" it.

cycomanic 3y ago
In my experience this happens very rarely. In most places that I'm aware of, there is a very strong aversion to hiring local candidates for tenured (or tenure track) positions. For example, in Germany it is extremely rare to become a professor at the. University where you did your phd/postdoc. It's almost always seen a something not quite right. Now there is still lots of politics involved in the hiring process. Tenured positions are rare and often the other academics on the committee want to candidates which strengthen their own research area (although interestingly if there is a colleague down the corridor or someone at a university half way around the world who can do some technique you require, collaboration is much more likely to happen with the external person)
- pvaldes 3y ago
  Is inversely proportional to the scarcity of the resources available