Who Is Today's Einstein? An Exercise In Ranking Scientists
Saturday, February 5, 2011 - 23:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Who cites who? Science funding, tenure track appointments, all that is important to young scientists gets more and more dominated by citation analysis. This is certainly true in physics. Physics is very much a cumulative endeavor. Each physicist builds on earlier work, and therefore each new physics publication will cite the papers it builds upon. It is therefore not unreasonable to link the impact of a paper to the number of citations it attracts. read more