A New Semantic Similarity Based Measure For Assessing Research Publication’s Contribution / quote 1 of 12
Judging a paper without reading it
The use of the current research publications performance metrics (citations, altmetrics, webometris, etc) is, in our opinion, based on a false premise that the impact (or even quality) of a research paper can be assessed purely based on external data without considering the manuscript of the publication itself. Such assumption resembles the idea of judging a lawsuit without the suspect having the oppor- tunity of being in court and is consequently flawed in the same way.