Is citation analysis a legitimate evaluation tool?

714 indexed citations
published 1979

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About Is citation analysis a legitimate evaluation tool?

This paper, published in 1979, received 714 indexed citations . Written by Eugene Garfield covering the research area of History and Philosophy of Science and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. It is primarily cited by scholars working on Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (288 citations), Strategy and Management (127 citations) and Sociology and Political Science (99 citations).

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This paper is also available at doi.org/10.1007/bf02019306.

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