Timeline for Are papers entirely unrelated to my field going to hurt my chances in the future?
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| Feb 20, 2014 at 16:50 | comment | added | Lev Reyzin | To clarify: papers in another field probably won't help or hurt because it's likely that nobody on the hiring committee can evaluate them. On the other hand, papers in your field, but a different subfield, could hurt if they are bad papers (just like papers in your own subfield). Also, having papers in a different subfield could hurt you "sell" yourself as being in one area, when your publication record may say otherwise. It of course should go without saying that a good paper in your field, but a different subfield, can and usually will help your application. | |
| Feb 20, 2014 at 4:01 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | I don't really see why a publication in a different subfield would hurt. Could you elaborate on that? | |
| Feb 19, 2014 at 23:27 | history | answered | Lev Reyzin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |