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We Could Start by Pretending Not to Care

Oct 21, 2008

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."

 

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