New Article-Level Metric Measures the Influence of Scientific Research (IMAGE)
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A group from the National Institute of Health's Office of Portfolio Analysis has developed a new metric, known as the Relative Citation Ratio, which will allow researchers and funders to quantify and compare the influence of a scientific article. In a Meta-Research Article publishing Sept. 6 in the open access journal, PLOS Biology, George Santangelo and colleagues describe RCR, which measures a scientific publication's influence in a way that is article-level and field-independent.
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Ian Hutchins and George Santangelo.
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