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- Waltman, L., & van Eck, N. J.
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- Leiden University (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Waltman, Ludo
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- Scientometrics
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- 2012-11-23
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- 699-716
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- Keywords
- citation impact, field normalization, citation practices, journal selection
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Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
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