Dear Asma,
The value isn't in the amount of citations but in who is citing, and in what particular regard.
Dear Asma,
Nice survey question, and my short answer to your question is the option (a) 1.
I think you are going to give weight to published articles and their citations with respect to each other, and need to know the opinion of other researchers. I am sure you know that there are other parameters involved in the evaluation of the academic performance, but your question targets only articles and citations, which is absolutely fine.
If the number of articles (perhaps those in which the researcher is the first or the corresponding author) and citations are considered as two parameters for the evaluation of the performance of researchers in a specific field, and the value of each paper is considered as "10", then I would give each citation a value of "1". Of Course this is a very personal opinion. Hope it can help .
Best wishes,
Ali
The productivity of the researchers does not relate or connect to the citation.
Many thanks to all for your comments. In this question, I wanted to know your opinion on how to give weight to articles and citations. Of course, there are many parameters involved in academic performance. Imagine if you publish an article you get 10 scores, what score do you expect for each citation that your article receives?
However, thanks for the comments.
Dear Asma Rezaei ,
As above researchers already said, i also think that there is no relation between productivity of the researchers and citations. Ofcourse it is good to have more number of citations but who is citing it and impact factor of that article can not be neglected.
The h-index which is a very important indicator of academic success, combines the productivity of a researcher based on "the number of papers produced"; and the impact of his/her research based on "the number of citations". Scopus, WOS, and Google Scholar may provide different h-index ratings for authors based on their databases; but the h-index (and therefore, number of articles and citations) remains one of the most important measures to evaluate the academic performance of researchers. Being a perfect measure is a different question, and the answer is, obviously, not!
Thank you for this question. It made me think very deep. Published studies have different levels of evidence that can be derived from each based on the nature of study performed; with randomized control studies having the highest level of evidence.'' If I would weigh each article, should I weigh each equally simply because it has been successfully published? What if this article has been published in a proven predatory journal or the findings of the article is falsified or plagiarized?'' Citations of an article depends on several factors which include how similar the article is close to the author's own work in terms of outcomes and settings and the visibility and accessibility of the article cited.
I think 1 point should be given for each citation assuming an article is weighed 10.
This is a very interesting issue and I also wonder what weight is given to a citation relative to a publication (which is how I paraphrase your question) in RG.
Thank you Joseph C Lee for your comment. I am attaching an article recently published about this issue. Best wishes
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Citations are obviously a good evaluation index but the context of a citation remains a determining factor. You can cite a paper that gives qualitatively the same results as yours and not cite more serious studies that contradict your results. In other words, there is always a way to justify your paper. When you apply a "cooking recipe" (which does not results from a rigorous theory or rigorous justification) in a field of physics and then say that your results are very good, it means that the results are good but you don't know why they are good?
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