[dajt]

I assume uploading to arXiv doesn't count as having published a peer reviewed journal article, which is a problem for professionals.

For example, for me to progress in my current job I either need a doctorate or to have published a number of peer-reviewed articles in recognised journals as first author. I have written two IETF RFCs and these count for nothing.

I am not a scientist, I am a software developer. I am not employed as a scientist, I am employed as a software developer. But the rules of the organisation are thus.

[Al-Khwarizmi]

> I assume uploading to arXiv doesn't count as having published a peer reviewed journal article, which is a problem for professionals.

Yes, in fact this is mainly what I meant with "quality badge". It's a badge mostly for instutitional bean-counting processes. Fellow scientists don't need it that much, typically we can separate the wheat from the chaff with a very quick skim.

[hnben]

> which is a problem for professionals

dont worry, leadership will find another metric to turn into a target, after the old metric has stopped working for a decade or two.