Many universities have adopted the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which forbids considering journal rankings as a proxy for research quality. What matters is the merit of an individual publication, not the journal that publishes it. Of course, DORA will not prevent a subjective bias in hiring or promotion decisions, but journal rankings are unlikely to be used as an objective criterion.
Carlo Beenakker
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