The Assessment of Science: The Relative Merits of Post-Publication Review, the Impact Factor, and the Number of Citations

Because both subjective post-publication review and the number of citations are highly error prone and biased measures of merit of scientific papers, journal-based metrics may be a better surrogate.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  PLoS Biology

• Publication date

  2013-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001675PMID 24115908PMCID 3792863
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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