I have previously written about how while bibliometrics may pretend to be “quantifying impact” of a scientist, they really do not. That said, it made me smile the other morning when I got a Google Scholar alert that our paper…
Ecole Polytechnique is hiring full-time, permanent, faculty members in computer science (and related fields, including networking). We’re specifically looking for junior, but tenure-track, applicants – in France that position is called “Maitre de Conferences”, and at Ecole Polytechnique it entails…
While it can be prestigious (and, is required for the CV for younger colleagues wanting to make any sort of academic career), publishing in journals tends to be one-way communication, and not really to the intellectual benefit of the authors, who “report…