Lead author Yarden Katz, a fellow at the center and in the department
of systems biology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, says they were interested in examining the relationship between NIH funding and
metrics widely used to indicate
scientific quality and determine
career advancement, such as publication, citation, and patent counts.
But he calls it «a valuable addition» to the already crowded toolbox
of metrics for sizing up scientists, such Semantic Scholar, an artificial intelligence tool for analyzing
scientific careers that he debuted earlier this year.