Comment: Citation Statistics
Methodology
2009-10-20 v1 Digital Libraries
Physics and Society
Abstract
We discuss the paper "Citation Statistics" by the Joint Committee on Quantitative Assessment of Research [arXiv:0910.3529]. In particular, we focus on a necessary feature of "good" measures for ranking scientific authors: that good measures must able to accurately distinguish between authors.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0910.3537,
title = {Comment: Citation Statistics},
author = {Sune Lehmann and Benny E. Lautrup and Andrew D. Jackson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.3537},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-STS285B the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)