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Re:Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in ne... by lonelappde on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @05:17PM (#20752269)
Is being cited a productivity metric?
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Re:Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in ne... by __lm__ on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @02:44AM (#20755020)
In Italy it is one of the three metrics used. The others are the number of published papers and the h-index.

This is the table of thresholds for associate professorship ("II Fascia") and full professorship ("I Fascia"): http://abilitazione.miur.it/public/documenti/2018/Tabelle_Va... "Numero articoli" is "number of papers", "Numero citazioni" is "number of citations", and "Indice H" is "h-index". The thresholds are different for each research area (e.g., "INFORMATICA" is "computer science").

The topic is actually a little bit more complex, since looking at the metrics is only one step of the process.

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