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Yes, I understand that. But if a fool buys a broken tool and builds his home with it, how long do you think this fool's home will last?
by dschuetz 8y ago
Yes, I understand that. But if a fool buys a broken tool and builds his home with it, how long do you think this fool's home will last?
- ithkuil 8y agoIndeed the number of deep/transitive citations would perhaps be an even more interesting measure
- dschuetz 8y agoIs there any instance in science that keeps track of citation lineage of a theory or experimental results? It is an interesting question.
- gus_massa 8y agoUsually with so many citations doesn't mean that there are 1700 independent citations in papers, only 1700 different papers. His paper is like a root of the deep citation tree. Many people cite their last papers, some recent papers in the area and the foundational papers in the area. So once you get a big foundational paper, you pile up citations for years. It would be a nice project to get the ADG of citations with this paper as root and make a graph of it. My guess it that it will be something that looks similar to tree (each paper in a branch would cite a few recent papers in the same branch), but most of the papers in the tree would cite also the root paper too.