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Quantifying the influence of scientists and their publications: distinguishing between prestige and popularity

Zhou, Yan-Bo ; Lü, Linyuan ; Li, Menghui

In: New Journal of Physics, 2012, vol. 14, p. 033033

The number of citations is a widely used metric for evaluating the scientific credit of papers, scientists and journals. However, it so happens that papers with fewer citations from prestigious scientists have a higher influence than papers with more citations. In this paper, we argue that by whom the paper is being cited is of greater significance than merely the number of citations....