The dossier package is required to include an assessment of the quality and impact of the dissemination outlets (scholarly journals, conferences, events, and webinars organized by professional associations, etc.) in which candidates´ work is published or presented. The department chair, or their designee, is responsible for preparing this assessment.
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Consider including the following elements:
For Scholarly Journals:
Some cautions around journal metrics: Each of these numerical rankings can be helpful, but a journal impact factor or acceptance rate number alone cannot tell the whole story of the significance of a journal in its field. Identifying any additional qualities of a journal (it’s the top journal in its field, it’s the premier place to share information within the specific discipline/field, etc.) helps to explain how journal selections match research work and career goals. |
For Conferences and other Forums of dissemination
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While each of these impact indicators can be helpful, these metrics alone cannot tell the whole story of the significance and quality of the publication venues (journals, conferences and other forums) for the field represented by the department. When building the narrative to explain the quality and impact provide further context about each dissemination outlet identified. An illustration of a narrative text that can be used as a model is provided below: The journal [journal name] [scope or description statement of the journal, including the audience and whether a journal is published by a society or association ]. It has an impact factor of [JIF] , and it's ranked [position in the subject category ranking or quartile] ([name of the data source]). The journal's acceptance rate is [ acceptance rate %], and is indexed in international databases, including [name of major specialized and multidisciplinary databases that index journals]. Example of a journal: JAMA Pediatrics is a peer-reviewed publication that enables discussion of issues pertaining to the treatment of pediatric patients from infancy through young adulthood on the clinical, scientific, advocacy, and humanistic fronts. It has a 2021 JIF of 26.8 and it's ranked among the top 5 journals (2 out of 130) in the 'Pediatrics' subject category of the Journal Citation Reports (Source: Journal Citation Reports, by Clarivate, 2022). The journal's acceptance rate is 11% and is indexed in international databases, including PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science. |
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