Preparing one’s tenure dossier is back-breaking work, people. And I mean that literally since I’m running all over the place with very heavy folders that I need to scan and enter into the Internet-based system. As my Jewish luck would have it, I belong to the first generation of tenure applicants at my school who have to complete the entire tenure dossier online. This means that all of the massive paperwork I have prepared over the years now has to be scanned and entered into the online system.
What really bugs me is that I can’t enter any of the citations of my scholarly work into the dossier. Seven scholars from different countries have cited my research. Yes, it might seem like nothing, but to me these seven citations are priceless. The problem is that all of these are citations of the articles I published before starting my tenure-track at this university. So they don’t count. Nothing of what I did before starting here counts. This is obviously fair and just as it should be, but it isn’t exactly like I’m drowning in citations of my later work.
Yes, these are very trivial problems. And I’m very much entitled to worry about something small and trivial for a change.
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Do you have a Google Scholar profile? Maybe you have more citations than you think and Google Scholar can find them for you.
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This was done through Google Scholar but I’m going to a workshop tomorrow where they will teach us to use other databases for these searches.
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Can you at least mention these citations of earlier pieces in the narrative? I don’t know that my university cares, but I have a couple of old pieces that still get new citations now. I think it matters, says something about value or quality, when your things have made a lasting mark.
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