New CACM article on "publications ranking"

Fri May 25 14:07:24 EDT 2007

Sigh.  It just seems so superficial and so not useful... basically based
on production.  The lead author is from Google -- makes you wonder if
this is a new product?

Ren, J. and Taylor, R. N. 2007. Automatic and versatile publications
ranking for research institutions and scholars. Commun. ACM 50, 6 (Jun.
2007), 81-85. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1247001.1247010

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