{"id":11403,"date":"2019-01-02T16:28:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T15:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=11403"},"modified":"2019-01-02T16:31:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T15:31:59","slug":"news-about-the-h-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2019\/01\/news-about-the-h-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"News about the H factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/openaccess.leidenuniv.nl\/handle\/1887\/65227\">Why (almost) everything we know about citations is wrong<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Moreover, intensifying specialization has made it more difficult for both evaluators to judge the promise and progress of research investments &#8230;, and for frontline researchers to select from the literature the prior knowledge upon which to build the next \u2018big idea\u2019 &#8230; In this paper, we first distinguish two perspectives of citing decisions, the normative and the social constructivist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do we cite because we think a paper is of high quality? This is the normative approach. But we may cite papers for other reasons eg for rhetorical and strategic reasons &#8211; the social constructivist view.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We argue that the evidence is most consistent with a \u201ccitation decision function\u201d that combines normative and social constructivist elements. Authors do not cite works they perceive to be below a minimum threshold value of quality, supporting the normative view. However, above this threshold, frequency of use is unrelated to quality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So if Misha Teplitskiy, Eamon Duede, Michael Meniett and Karim Lakhani are correct, the <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.de\/citations?user=-WDQHjm32G4J&amp;hl=de&amp;oi=ao\">H factor<\/a> is nearly useless, being more the reflectance of social status than of scientific innovation.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 12.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why (almost) everything we know about citations is wrong Moreover, intensifying specialization has made it more difficult for both evaluators to judge the promise and progress of research investments &#8230;, and for frontline researchers to select from the literature the prior knowledge upon which to build the next \u2018big idea\u2019 &#8230; In this paper, we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2019\/01\/news-about-the-h-factor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">News about the H factor<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11406,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403\/revisions\/11406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}