The wisdom of citing scientists is a research paper published in Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (2013). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.571. It has been cited 44 times.
This Brief Communication discusses the benefits of citation analysis in research evaluation based on Galton's “Wisdom of Crowds” (1907). Citations are based on the assessment of many which is why they can be considered to have some credibility. However, we show that citations are incomplete assessments and that one cannot assume that a high number of citations correlates with a high level of usefulness. 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. Using a comparison with “like” data, we try to determine that cited reference analysis allows for a more meaningful analysis of bibliometric data than times‐cited analysis.
FAIR checklist signals are shown for context only and do not affect DataRank scoring.
Base Score Contribution
0.571
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Citation Network Contribution
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Learn more about DataRank methodology →DataRank blends this paper's own citation count with the influence of the papers that cite it. Here, roughly 100% comes from its base citations and 0% from the citation network.
Citers are pulled from OpenAlex sorted by cited_by_count:descand capped per paper, so when the cap binds we keep the highest-signal references and the score is reproducible across reruns.