Promise and Pitfalls of Extending Google's PageRank Algorithm to Citation Networks
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Promise and pitfalls of extending Google's PageRank algorithm to citation networks.
The misuse of journal impact factor in hiring and promotion decisions is a growing concern. This article is one in a series of invited commentaries in which authors discuss this problem and consider alternative measures of an individual's impact. The number of citations is the most commonly used metric for quantifying the importance of scientific publications. However , we all have anecdotal ex...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0002-08.2008