Michele Pasin / Quotes

Citations are insufficient evidence of impact, quality and research contribution

However, citations are one of many attributes surrounding a publication and by themselves provide an insufficient evidence of impact, quality and research…

A New Semantic Similarity Based Measure For Assessing Research Publication’s Contribution #citations #attributes #evidence #impact

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…

A New Semantic Similarity Based Measure For Assessing Research Publication’s Contribution #use #assumption #impact

Make AI's hidden assumptions explicit

To reiterate, there are a few fundamental and implicit assumptions in current AI research that have to be made explicit. This is the only way that these…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #artificial-intelligence #assumption #research

Faults in the communication of scientific evidence and citations

Recent results spotlight concerns with the communi- cation of evidence and its citation. Begley and Ellis re- cently found that only 11% of research findings…

Micropublications: A Semantic Model For Claims, Evidence, Arguments And Annotations In Biomedical Communications #retraction #evidence #reference-lists #citations

Altmetrics

Peer-review has served scholarship well, but is beginning to show its age. It is slow, encourages conventionality, and fails to hold reviewers accountable…

Altmetrics: A Manifesto – Altmetrics.org #measures #impact

Impact depends on content, not interactions

In this paper, we present an approach for assessing the impact of a paper based on its full-text (Section 2). In this context, we use the term impact to refer…

A New Semantic Similarity Based Measure For Assessing Research Publication’s Contribution #impact #number #manuscript #interaction #content