How is a publication record evaluated or judged?
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How is a publication record evaluated or judged?
- There are many factors to take into account when looking at an individual’s publication record, such as:
- a) the authorship order,
- b) the number of publications,
- c) the prestige of the journals in which the studies are published,
- d) the prestige of the other authors on the paper, and
- e) the quality of the research (if this can be discerned from the title/topic of the article)
- f) the type of research (empirical, review, theory, applied, etc)
- While there are undoubtedly many different ways to judge the entirety of an individual’s publication record, there is a general heuristic that most people look for:
- 1) First author in journal considered the best in your field (e.g., JPSP for Social/Personality researchers).
- 2) First authorships (number of first authorships and quality/prestige of those journals)
- 3) Numerosity (total number of publications and quality/prestige of those journals)
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