> How do you determine quality? Certainly not by citations counts. Citations have more to do with the authors social or scientific network than the worth of th

> How do you determine quality? Certainly not by citations counts. Citations have more to do with the authors social or scientific network than the worth of the papers. > It was cited three times in the following 35 years. By all metrics, it was a low quality work. It was not low quality work (although it did spark quite a bit of controversy due to its perceived or actual issues). It was just an article written by an unknown author in an unknown journal.