Timeline for Where can I find the number of citations the top x % of researchers of a given research field have received?
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| Jun 30, 2021 at 5:06 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @JeffE Good points. we'll have to live with some approximations and whatever is available :) | |
| Jun 30, 2021 at 5:05 | comment | added | JeffE | That's a imperfect but reasonable restriction. But what exactly counts as a "peer-reviewed paper"? I have peer-reviewed review articles, textbooks, and chapters of research monographs; do those count? Most computer science conferences are peer-reviewed, but are you sure you can tell which are not? What about papers published in Chinese in Chinese-only journals? What about papers in predatory journals? (And who decides if they're predatory?) Journals with editorial scandals? Journals that have only published their first issue? Et cetera. There are tons of tiny decisions and no ground truth. | |
| Jun 28, 2021 at 17:45 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @JeffE let's say a peer-reviewed paper. | |
| Jun 28, 2021 at 16:52 | comment | added | JeffE | @FranckDernoncourt Right, but what counts as a "publication"? Review/survey article? Conference proceedings paper? Unrefereed workshop abstract? PhD thesis? Master's thesis? Research monograph? Textbook? arXiv preprint? PDF on ResearchGate? Patent? Github repository? Popular press book? Graphic novel? Blog post? YouTube video? Wikipedia article? | |
| Jun 27, 2021 at 16:38 | answer | added | Franck Dernoncourt | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jun 27, 2021 at 3:40 | answer | added | Allure | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 27, 2021 at 0:11 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @JeffE good point, ideally let's use all publications to count citations | |
| Jun 27, 2021 at 0:08 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @DavidKetcheson true but the method to draw the line is likely field-independent, so at least it'll keep its comparative usefulness. One way is simply to count as researcher anyone with at least one publication. | |
| Jun 26, 2021 at 22:33 | comment | added | JeffE | This will also be sensitive to how citations are counted. Every platform yields a different number, in part because every platform indexes different subsets of publications. (I just checked seven different platforms for my own citation record. I got seven different numbers, the largest of which was more than three times larger than the smallest.) | |
| Jun 26, 2021 at 22:17 | comment | added | David Ketcheson | This will be sensitive to how you decide to count the total # of researchers in a field. I don't believe there is a clear place to draw the line between who counts and who doesn't. | |
| Jun 26, 2021 at 21:41 | history | edited | Franck Dernoncourt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 26, 2021 at 21:33 | history | asked | Franck Dernoncourt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |