Many universities have adopted the <A HREF="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Declaration_on_Research_Assessment">San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment</A> (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.