Where does committee work go on an academic CV, and is it the same section as reviewing for a journal? Committee work and journal reviewing belong in separate sections of a faculty CV. The committee you chair at your own university is institutional service, the journal you review or edit for is editorial service, and the learned society you belong to is a professional association. Axe Builder, our resume builder for researchers, turns an ORCID iD into an academic resume with citations, h-index, journal quartiles and Crossref data already in place. Since 25 August, it prints professional service under those three headings.
Each entry carries a type, and the resume groups the entries under Institutional Service, Editorial & Review Service and Professional Associations, in that order. A hiring panel looking for editorial standing, or for evidence of institutional citizenship, finds each in its place without reading the whole list.
Why the separation matters at professor level
At Associate Professor and Professor level, universities read service as evidence of leadership. Editorial board membership shows standing in the field, chairing a committee shows that a candidate can run things, and roles in associations show a network. In a single undifferentiated list the three signals blur together, and under three headings a panel reads each of them. Axe Talent reads service sections this way for universities every week, and the builder lays out your own committee work, reviewing and memberships the same way.