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Relative Citation Ratio (RCR): A New Metric That Uses Citation Rates to Measure Influence at the Article Level

Despite their recognized limitations, bibliometric assessments of scientific productivity have been widely adopted. We describe here an improved method to quantify the influence of a research article by making novel use of its co-citation network to field-normalize the number of citations it has rec...

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Autores principales: Hutchins, B. Ian, Yuan, Xin, Anderson, James M., Santangelo, George M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5012559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27599104
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002541