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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.

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@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}
}

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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)

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