Uncertainty of author citation rankings: Lessons from in-text citation weighing schemes
In-text frequency-weighted citation counting has been seen as a particularly promising solution to the well-known problem of citation analysis that treats all citations equally, be they crucial to the citing paper or perfunctory. But what is a good weighting scheme? Our preliminary results show that the ranks of authors in the field of Library and Information Science vary wildly with different in-text citation frequency weighting schemes, suggesting that author citation ranks may inherently be uncertain.
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