- From: Sören Auer <auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 16:04:59 -0400
- To: Jeremy Carroll <jeremy@topquadrant.com>
- CC: "'Azamat'" <abdoul@cytanet.com.cy>, "'[ontolog-forum] '" <ontolog-forum@ontolog.cim3.net>, "'SW-forum'" <semantic-web@w3.org>, mjarrar@cs.ucy.ac.cy
Jeremy Carroll wrote: > Google scholar provides citation counts, which while still a > fairly rough measure, does include an idea of the importance > of any piece of work. I agree that citation counts are a pretty good estimate of a works impact. A more severe problem from my point of view is the distribution of research funds. Existing paradigms seem to be either biased towards large established organizations or well-connected, long established individuals. For innovative ideas and younger researchers it is much harder. I have the vision that research communities' crowd intelligence could be employed in the Web 2.0 style for deciding about research funding [1]. --Sören [1] http://wiki.cofundos.org/
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