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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2016-09-01
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| Series: | PLoS Biology |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5012559?pdf=render |