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Re:Outbreak of common colds at Antarctic base after 17 weeks... by scottishcow on Friday May 15, 2020 @03:53PM (#23196658)
Granted 16 isn't a lot, but that's actually a higher citation count than the vast majority of academic papers. Anyways, thinking of citations as a reliable proxy for paper quality is like ranking artists by how many followers they have on Twitter.
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Re:Outbreak of common colds at Antarctic base after 17 weeks... by clairity on Friday May 15, 2020 @04:46PM (#23197194)
it would be more like ranking artists based on how many other artists follow them, not the general public as a whole.
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