Sentences with phrase «citation counts»

"Citation counts" refers to the number of times a research paper, article, or publication has been referenced or mentioned in other academic works. Full definition
For instance, a book may have been very influential a decade ago and continue to influence citation counts and a scholar's visibility but no longer sell many copies.
First, even though the Journal aspires to be international and sensitive to context, its highest level of citation counts occurred in its first phase, of what the authors describe as «assumed universality of scaling educational change.»
Sudan's high citation count is due largely to papers on humanitarian crises in Darfur and South Sudan.
Some results can be quite interesting especially if you consult citation counts in Web of Science or Scopus.
Since then, reforms have «deemphasize [d] citation counts and empower [ed] ombudspersons to protect whistleblowers,» Schrank and Lee note, but the reforms «are new, and therefore unproven.»
The citation distributions are so skewed that up to 75 % of the articles in any given journal had lower citation counts than the journal's average number.
We have compiled a list of the 50 most followed scientists on the social media platform and their academic citation counts — and calculated their K - index by drawing on citation data from Google Scholar (A fuller explanation of how we compiled the list is below, at the end of the full story).
This led him to speculate that if academic careers were less linear, defined less by narrow metrics such as citation counts and grants and more by wider societal benefits such as outreach activities and teaching quality, «there would be more diversity and thus innovation in the system.»
Economists rarely pen books, but they do tend to coauthor substantial numbers of articles and rack up impressive citation counts.
By studying citation counts, they identified 5 distinct periods in the Journal's history, spanning from a first one of «assumed universality in scaling educational change» (2000 - 2002) to the most recent phase of «emergent internationalization and empiricism» (2012 - 2014).
Names are sorted in descending order of citation count, on their # 4 most cited work.
Virginia Trimble, an astronomer at the University of California, Irvine, says that, on a per - telescope basis, both publication and citation counts for Gemini have fallen behind those of its rivals (see «Paper chase»), and the demand for telescope time has fallen.
And they found that papers with terser titles top the citation count.
For example, if the citation counts of articles were like the heights of people, then the average number would be informative.
In an attempt to shed some light, a group of researchers and journal editors today released a data set and analysis of the citation counts used to calculate this magical number.
For example, there's no easy way to distinguish physicist Brian Cox of the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom from physiologist Brian Cox of the University of Toronto in Canada in calculating the former's citation count.
The K - index is the ratio of the scientist's actual follower number to the follower number «warranted» by the citation count.
Citation counting — worse than the Oscars!
The Kardashian Index is calculated as follows: In his commentary, using data gathered on 40 scientists, Hall derived a formula for calculating the number of Twitter followers a scientist should have given one's citation count.
The K - index is calculated as follows: In his commentary, using data gathered on 40 scientists, Neil Hall derived a formula for calculating the number of Twitter followers a scientist should have given one's citation count.
The paper was co-authored by Nobel Prize — winner Stanley Prusiner, he notes, which may have boosted its citation count to its current number of 103.
Weighted RCR is essentially defining an average paper's scientific impact based on actual citations as 1 (normalized by research field), and a given scientist's output can be compared against the average by adding together the citation count for that scientist's papers to give the Weighted RCR over a given period of time).
Broadly speaking, the scores generally draw about 40 % on scholarly influence in terms of bodies of work and citation counts, 25 % on book authorship and current book success (which frequently overlaps with scholarly work), and about 35 % on presence in new and old media, as well as in the Congressional Record.
As the authors note, citation counts are often used by university departments to make decisions about hiring and tenure.
Hein goes on to point out how much value their increasingly sophisticated search and personal account tools offer, and point to their citation counting and other features.
Casetext's relevance is determined as a function of «keyword frequency, citation count, data, and jurisdiction» according to an email Mart received from a Casetext team member.
For the hapless evaluator of legal scholarship there are no such clear metrics for tracking the dollar value of scholarship and such metrics as exist (citation counts, downloads, US News peer reputation scores) are, as I observed previously, incomplete at best and woefully inadequate at worst.
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