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Letter to the Editor: About the quality and impact of scientific articles
1Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Circuito Zona Deportiva, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Ciudad de México, Mexico.
Abstract:
It is argued that counting the total number of times a scientific article is cited by others, does neither result in a proxy for its cognitive impact nor for its quality. One would have to distinguish at least substitutable and fundamental references. A supposed correlation between peer review assessments and citation counts is conceptually problematic, because peer review includes objective as well as subjective considerations (convictions). With refined methods, however, a differential citation analysis might be able in the future to answer if a given article did or did not have positive cognitive impact on subsequent research.
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