Academic Citation Metrics
Discussions center on citation counts, h-index, impact factors, and similar metrics for evaluating academic papers and researchers, including issues like gaming, citation rings, and proposals for alternatives such as PageRank-like systems.
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No, because it counts citations from influential papers with a higher weight.
We need to have HN for academic research papers:Karma counts as the citation index,or something similar.
I think you may be interested in the "h-index" and related metrics.http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~palsberg/h-number.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-indexhttp://researchguides.uic.edu/hindex
Perhaps we should use the equivalent of "page-rank" for scientific papers and their citations as a quality measure (?)
Do you have any other benchmark apart from citations?
Seems like this is a case of "whatever you measure will be gamed": counting citations is an important part of how academics are evaluated at work, so we get flag-planting behavior to maximize that metric with minimal effort.There's a similar issue in journal publishing: counting "published works" without regard for where leads to journals that will publish literally anything for cash.
Academics are judged on stupid factors depending on the quantity of publications and citations rather than on the quality of their research.This reminds me of pagerank and SEO. In fact this ring is basically the equivalent of black-hat SEO's link-farms for academic journals.
It's actually the impact of the paper that matters, how many cites it gets.
Since the valuable service provided by publishers is, more or less, predicting future citations of a research work for funding purposes, what do people think of using a PageRank-like system for that instead? That way, instead of trying to publish in a high-impact journal, people will just put their papers online and try to get them approved by high-impact researchers. I think that could be just as reliable signal of quality as the current system, while costing less money, because high-impact res
Regrettable that the article begins by outing a prof from an unheard of university in India, who probably publishes in low repute journals and conference. Ideally the citing malfeasance score should be weighted based on journal and conference reputation.