How do search committees judge the publication list?
First of all, you should not presume that a committee member spends just "a few minutes". Even for large volume searches, a huge number of applications fail some very basic filters (Do you have a PhD or equiv.? Did your cover letter show some flicker of recognition as to what you were applying for?, etc.) that affords the committee more time on the actual applications that may or may not make the short list. In my experience, searches are massive expenditures of time on the part of the committee and are taken pretty seriously - after all, they're talking about spending potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars and having to work with someone for 5+ years.

And while search committee members may not be experts in the exact subfield in question, there's good odds one of them has a notion of the broad strokes of what's a good journal and what's not. It's also possible to look these journals up if it's unclear - or to ask colleagues closer to the field in question "Hey, have you ever heard of the International Journal of Epidemiology, and is it any good?" (For reference, the answer is 'Yes, and Yes').