On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Egon Willighagen <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > The original paper 5 years ago is still being cited and I expect this new
> > one will also be highly read and act as a reference for those interested
> in
> > Open chemistry.
>
> 119 times now, according to Web of Science, with 19 citations this year so
> far.
>
> According to our library, the paper belongs to the Top 5% most cited
> papers, across fields, around the world.
>
> We clearly are having an impact on the scholarly community!
>
> Egon
>
> (For whatever reason the in fact cite the paper, many citations
> because many citations reflect the use of the Open Babel toolkit
> specifically, by people may have little affection with the ODOSOS
> goals itself...)
>
This is one reason why citation metrics are at best "inaccurate". (I use
worse language). There is some attempt to annotate citations for their
motovation but this is very difficult. Thus Ben O'Steen has looked at
citation analysis of Wakelin's paper on the MMR vaccine (restricted to UKPMC
because most publishers forbid the automatic extraction of citations). All
the immediate citations were negative. So the high citation count is not a
figure of positive esteem.
There is , of course, ritual citation and I suspect this is increasingly
common. And that applies strongly to software.
P.
> --
> Dr E.L. Willighagen
> Postdoctoral Researcher
> Institutet för miljömedicin
> Karolinska Institutet (http://ki.se/imm)
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>
--
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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