Citations of research papers are the topic of various threads on this platform. Quite often researchers ask how to increase the number of citations. I did my first 30 years of chemical research in a time when the number of citations was not known to me because there was no internet. Today citations counts are readily available, but how important are they really? Is it important to care about your citation counts, or are citations perhaps overrated?

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