The review papers have benefits in analyzing and assessing novel works in certain subject within certain specialization. In addition these review papers usually bring with them higher number of citations. This makes many scientists prefer to work with them, which lead to make review papers sometimes mean of getting citation and increasing h index without giving real scientific value for the scientific community. What's your opinion, is it better to isolate review papers and give it lower degree in citation from novel researches in evaluating the citations and h index. 

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