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The Assessment of Science: The Relative Merits of Post-Publication Review, the Impact Factor, and the Number of Citations

The assessment of scientific publications is an integral part of the scientific process. Here we investigate three methods of assessing the merit of a scientific paper: subjective post-publication peer review, the number of citations gained by a paper, and the impact factor of the journal in which t...

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Autores principales: Eyre-Walker, Adam, Stoletzki, Nina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3792863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24115908
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001675