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I remember tenure committees would have "vertical inches" measured from the Science Citation Index. In the world of big data, not all citations are created equ
by jpdoctor 14y ago
I remember tenure committees would have "vertical inches" measured from the Science Citation Index.
In the world of big data, not all citations are created equal, and I look forward to new metrics based on quality of citations.
- mjn 14y agoI've long wanted some kind of citation-sorting for research, though I'm more skeptical of the whole business for assessment. For research, I think it could improve discoverability and ability to trace chains of influence. If I find a paper that was cited 190 times and I want to see whether anyone's really followed up on it (critiqued it, extended it, revised it, refuted it, etc.), the reverse-citation list is too noisy. It'd be great if I could filter the citations, for example to exclude "related work exists [2,5,12,44]" type throwaway citations.