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A lot has happened in my profession since 2006...

• jldugger 9y ago
  But it wouldn't necessarily be a 'classic'. The point of the exercise is to find papers that are widely considered valuable, especially to other researchers. To do this, they're using citation counts. There's obviously a number of problems with citations, including self-cites, negative citations ("Alice & Bob '06 shook the community when they found things, but our better, larger study finds no evidence of any effect"), and such. But it makes sense for a company built upon citation rank indexing to rely on such methods =)