FW: Rebellion corner: do citations necessarily indicate the quality of a paper?
Catalina Neculai
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Subject: Rebellion corner: do citations necessarily indicate the quality of a paper?
Hi All, I recently came across a 2014 article in the journal Nature on the 100 most cited papers of all time (as determined in 2014). If you are doing academic writing research where you are assuming - as many people seem to do - that the number
Hi All,
I recently came across a 2014 article in the journal Nature on the 100 most cited papers of all time (as determined in 2014).
If you are doing academic writing research where you are assuming - as many people seem to do - that the number of citations is proportional to research quality and, by default, writing quality, then it is definitely worth a read.
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Interesting fact: the papers that result in people winning Nobel prizes are not necessarily the most cited.
There is also the matter of how the contents of the paper affect the number of citations. A quote from the article summarises it nicely:
"Still, there is one powerful lesson for researchers, notes Peter Moore, a chemist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. “If citations are what you want,” he says, “devising a method that makes it possible for people to do the experiments they want at all, or more easily, will get you a lot further than, say, discovering the secret of the Universe”.
Hope that you are all having a good summer.
Best wishes,
Susan Mitchell
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