The Citation Merit of Scientific Publications

We propose a new method to assess the merit of any set of scientific papers in a given field based on the citations they receive. Given a field and a citation impact indicator, such as the mean citation or the -index, the merit of a given set of articles is identified with the probability that a ra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Crespo, Juan A., Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio, Ruiz-Castillo, Javier
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3496740/