Dustin Kidd

I recently submitted my tenure paperwork. By the time tenure rolls around, it's too late to worry about publishing. Instead, you have to worry about printing. There is a mountain of documentation that needs to be submitted. If I could go back 5 years and give myself some advice, I'd suggest collecting the following, and reviewing it once a year: 1. Printouts of my listings in the programs for every conference I went to 2. One good email or letter for each service activity I performed (ideally a thank-you letter, otherwise, an exemplary email) 3. A citation report for each of my articles using both JCR and Google Scholar. 4. A journal impact assessment for the journals I've published in, tracking impact factor, number of libraries that hold the journal, whether indexed and whether refereed 5. A short paragraph or two on each of my publications, explaining why I wrote them and what they contributed 6. A printout verifying every internal and external award I received, and ...