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Measuring citations



Phil Davis on the methodologies of measuring journals' impact 
factors:

http://bit.ly/kxcRF2

and the long link:

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2011/06/13/anticipating-the-2010-impact-factor/

Davis notes that the devil is in the details.  Publishers can 
influence those details in various ways.  For example, it is 
amusing to see in this piece one of the reasons that publishers 
invest so much in copy-editing (it can lead to higher citation 
counts).

Joe Esposito