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"...in this part, Tufte related how he told Aaron, half-seriously, that Aaron’s main fault was downloading millions of articles when only a few thousand were wo
by keithpeter 14y ago
"...in this part, Tufte related how he told Aaron, half-seriously, that Aaron’s main fault was downloading millions of articles when only a few thousand were worth downloading."
So true; the trick is in recognising and curating those few thousand.
- hkmurakami 14y agoThe commonly accepted metric for "worthwhile" articles would be the number of citations they have received from other articles. One could conceivably figure out, through some clever parsing, which articles have been cited the most.
- keithpeter 14y agoThere are indeed citation indexes which are used to 'score' papers when they are cited, one such being the Science Citation Index, a subscription service available to many members of universities. http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/free/essays/history_of_citation_indexing/ http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/free/ess... There are issues with citation indexes, bias towards early publication &c. My comment was directed more at the 'paper mill' and the 'minimum publishable result' tendency in some areas of science!
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