The Wisdom of Citing Scientists

[Paul Colin de Gloucester]

On August 9th, 2013, Lutz Bornmann sent:
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|"[. . .] one cannot assume that a high number of citations correlate with a|
|high level of usefulness."                                                 |
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Good point.

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|"Only when one knows that a rarely cited paper has been widely read is it  |
|possible to say (strictly speaking) that it was obviously of little use    |
|for further research. [. . .]"                                             |
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What if it was plagiarized?