Reply to Comment on ‘Are physicists afraid of mathematics?’
Based on citation data of biologists and physicists, we reiterate that trends in statistical indicators are not reliable to unambiguously blame mathematics for the existence or lack of paper citations. We further clarify that, contrary to claims in the Comment (Higginson and Fawcett 2016 New J. Phys...
Main Authors: | Jonathan E Kollmer, Thorsten Pöschel, Jason A C Gallas |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2016-01-01
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Series: | New Journal of Physics |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/11/118004 |
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