- From: Pieter De Leenheer <pdeleenh@vub.ac.be>
- Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 15:28:28 +0200
- 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>
I agree with the value of the wisdom of the crowd effect in many cases, however it should be controlled somehow to prevent the emergence of "foolishness of the crowd". E.g., I see many sets of publications that are many times acknowledged just because the authors copy-paste them blindly from each other over and over. In many of these case the publications are out-dated, anecdotal, and newer papers in their shadow are not regarded anymore. On 08 May 2009, at 21:41, 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. > > In particular citation counts can be high for a good piece of > research engineering and one paper about it. (Jena follows this > model). This certainly helped with my US Visa application (they look > at citation counts). > > Jeremy Pieter De Leenheer Semantics Technology & Applications Research Laboratory Vrije Universiteit Brussel T +32 2 629 37 50 | M +32 497 336 553 | F +32 2 629 38 19 Check out my blog: http://www.pieterdeleenheer.be
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