Chris Lee's Nobel Intent blog at Ars Technica discusses how much scientists really should care where they get published, considering the emphasis placed on getting into the top-tier journals in a particular field. "Scientific competence should not be judged by how many citations the author's work has received or where it was published," he writes. "Instead, we should consider using a mathematical graph analysis to look at the networks of publications and citations, which should help us judge how central to a field a particular researcher is."
We Could Start by Pretending Not to Care
Oct 21, 2008
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