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Measures for measures

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Are some ways of measuring scientific quality better than others? Sune Lehmann, Andrew D. Jackson and Benny E. Lautrup analyse the reliability of commonly used methods for comparing citation records.

There have been few attempts to discover which of the popular citation measures is best and whether any are statistically reliable.

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Figure 1: The probabilities for four different measures.

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  1. Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modeling, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, DK-2800, Denmark

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