[PRL] Citation Statistics

Mitchell Wand wand at ccs.neu.edu
Fri Jan 30 10:29:29 EST 2009


This is old news.  I read this when it came out in June.  Save your eyes;
here's the readers' digest version:

There are three kinds lies:  lies, damned lies, and statistics.

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Therapon Skotiniotis
<skotthe at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:

>
>  Via Phil Wadler's blog. Interesting take on the use of citation data in
> the assessment of scientific research.
>
>   [Blog Entry]
> http://wadler.blogspot.com/2009/01/imu-on-citation-statistics.html
>   [PDF doc]
> http://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/IMU/Report/CitationStatistics.pdf
>
> --
> Theo
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