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There are moderate tools like multi-round double blind reviews to resolve such issues.

A tool which was used to resolve issues among chemists and biologists is now running rampant over fields which do not have a high volume of citations. Mathematics is suffering, for example.

An Annals of Math paper might have fewer citations than a paper in Journal of Applied Statistics. But the prestige is incomparable.

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So what's the problem there? The person going for a job in a maths department with an Annals of Maths citation isn't going to be in a competition with someone with a big H-index because of applied stats papers... the committee won't look twice at the statistician! On the other hand if the Annals of Maths person wants a job in stats then presumably they will also have stats papers (and the stats people will be keen to know.. "what about your amazing career in pure math?!"