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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Main Authors: Adam Eyre-Walker, Nina Stoletzki
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/9a2a9d8a948a417ab9dbd97721f80d3a
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