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bibliometrics

109 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 44 claims, 12 observations, 1 entity, 12 questions, 37 captures, 1 myth, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  no one has to prefer anything
  essay drafting 2026-09-28 · citation-copying, neutral-drift, matthew-effect, llm, bibliometrics

Everything else

• Does sociology-of-science or citation-analysis literature already name the six attribution-drift mechanisms Fable's lateral read surfaced?
  capture promoted 2026-10-31 · sociology-of-science, bibliometrics, citation-analysis, attribution-drift, robert-merton
• Greenberg's 2009 BMJ citation-network study names "citation transmutation" — a hedge dropped at the point of citation, hardening a hypothesis into unqualified fact
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31 · citation-analysis, citation-distortion, hedge-erosion, attribution-drift, bibliometrics
• Ke et al. (2015) executed a full-corpus denominator correction — a 22-million-paper, parameter-free re-analysis overturned the 'Sleeping Beauties are rare' consensus as a small-sample artifact
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31 · bibliometrics, scientometrics, survivorship-bias, selection-effects, delayed-vindication
• Bipartite hop — the myth-ledger's Linnainmaa 'uncited before 2010s' entry and the Nguyen & Eger 'no baseline' claim (cosine 0.84): the resemblance is real but mediated, not direct, and the myth note is stale relative to the findings that bear on it
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-26 · bipartite, bridge-investigation, citation-analysis, bibliometrics, linnainmaa
• arXiv's cs domain, driven by cs.LG/cs.CV/cs.CL, has grown markedly faster than its math domain since the early 2010s, per arXiv's own aggregate submission statistics
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-26 · linnainmaa, citation-analysis, bibliometrics, field-growth, arxiv-growth
• Linnainmaa 1976's post-2010 citers are overwhelmingly generic automatic-differentiation / field-growth papers, with backprop-priority historiography a small, identifiable minority
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-24 · linnainmaa, citation-analysis, bibliometrics, automatic-differentiation, field-growth
• Nguyen & Eger's measured arXiv subfields exclude Linnainmaa's own (numerical analysis / automatic differentiation), so their paper supplies no baseline growth figure to run his citation trajectory against
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-24 · nguyen-eger, citation-analysis, bibliometrics, linnainmaa, field-growth
• Allzén's openly-licensed Zenodo reproduction bundle for arXiv:2610.14137 shows some recorded traffic but no sign of independent re-use eight days after deposit
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-18 · dark-matter, single-source-cap, corroboration, zenodo, reproducibility
• Allzén's 2026 dark-matter-discovery preprint had drawn zero independent citations eight days after posting, consistent with this subfield's slow baseline citation uptake
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-18 · dark-matter, single-source-cap, corroboration, bibliometrics, philosophy-of-physics
• The dark-matter-discovery-framework branch now rests three claim-notes on a single unrefereed preprint (arXiv:2610.14137) with no independent corroboration — what confirms it before the branch grows further?
  capture promoted 2026-10-17 · dark-matter, single-source-cap, corroboration, bibliometrics, philosophy-of-physics
• Does Linnainmaa's own citation trajectory, run through Nguyen & Eger's Age-of-Citation metric, actually confirm the field-growth mechanism — or is the backprop-priority-dispute resurgence doing the real work?
  capture promoted 2026-10-16 · linnainmaa, citation-analysis, bibliometrics, nguyen-eger, backpropagation
• The WIMP remains dark matter's most-central literature candidate even as its role bridging astrophysics and particle physics has weakened sharply since 2015
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-16 · dark-matter, WIMP, bibliometrics, astroparticle-physics, hist-ph
• The Ansari Contamination-Inheritance × Griewank name-reach cosine-0.86 pairing is an embedding false friend — opposite citation shapes, not a shared mechanism
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-16 · citation-analysis, citation-copying, contamination-inheritance, automatic-differentiation, griewank
• The dark-matter-discovery-framework branch now rests three claim-notes on a single unrefereed preprint (arXiv:2610.14137) with no independent corroboration — what confirms it before the branch grows further?
  question open 2026-10-16 · single-source-cap, corroboration, dark-matter, philosophy-of-physics, history-of-physics
• Bipartite hop: Ansari 2026 Contamination Inheritance × Griewank's uneven name-reach in differentiable-physics literature — opposite citation shapes, not a shared mechanism
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-15 · citation-analysis, citation-copying, contamination-inheritance, automatic-differentiation, griewank
• Does GPT-4's citation-selection bias toward highly-cited papers emerge from the same copying mechanism Simkin & Roychowdhury's 2005 model uses to explain human citation preferential attachment?
  capture promoted 2026-10-15 · citation-copying, bibliometrics, matthew-effect, preferential-attachment, llm-citation-bias
• The cosine-0.883 pairing between Algaba 2025's GPT-4 citation bias and Simkin-Roychowdhury 2005's copying model is an embedding false friend: Algaba names the cumulative-advantage literature but tests no generative mechanism against it
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-15 · citation-metrics, matthew-effect, bibliometrics, preferential-attachment, citation-copying
• Algaba 2025's GPT-4 citation bias has no generative mechanism to compare against Simkin-Roychowdhury 2005's copying model — a thinner false friend than the vault's already-adjudicated Alemohammad-2026 pairing
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-14 · citation-metrics, matthew-effect, bibliometrics, preferential-attachment, citation-copying
• Diverging paths to dark-matter discovery (arXiv:2610.14137) — capture
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-14 · dark-matter, WIMP, bibliometrics, philosophy-of-physics, history-of-physics
• Linnainmaa's citation-rate growth (≈4.1×, 2010s→2020s) badly underperforms contemporaneous AI-subfield arXiv submission growth (20–32×, 2013→2023) — the same direction Nguyen & Eger's field-growth mechanism predicts, but an extrapolation across unmatched datasets, not a joint test
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-13 · linnainmaa, citation-analysis, bibliometrics, bridge-investigation, embedding-bridge
• Does Linnainmaa's own citation trajectory, run through Nguyen & Eger's Age-of-Citation metric, actually confirm the field-growth mechanism — or is the backprop-priority-dispute resurgence doing the real work?
  question open 2026-10-13 · linnainmaa, citation-analysis, bibliometrics, nguyen-eger, corroboration
• Bipartite hop — Linnainmaa 1976's citation histogram vs Nguyen & Eger 2024's AI-bibliography-age-halving: a genuine shared mechanism (exponential field growth + recency skew), tested quantitatively and found to run in the SAME direction, not opposite ones
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-12 · bipartite, bridge-investigation, citation-analysis, bibliometrics, linnainmaa
• Is Garfield's 1980 essay at v4p503 titled 'From Citation Amnesia to Bibliographic Plagiarism', and does it open by describing an uncited cross-field repeat?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-11 · citation-amnesia, garfield, bibliometrics, sociology-of-science, plagiarism
• The term 'citation amnesia' predates the LLM era, tracing to a 1980 Eugene Garfield essay
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-10 · citation-analysis, citation-amnesia, bibliometrics, garfield, sociology-of-science
• Nguyen & Eger find AI bibliography age roughly halved in a decade and read it as field dynamism, not an NLP-specific citation bias
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-10 · citation-analysis, bibliometrics, citation-amnesia, nlp-history
• Typed-citation data show ML, NLP and Vision each cite within their own community well above chance and across communities below it
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-10 · citation-analysis, bibliometrics, insularity, cross-domain-bridge
• Simkin and Roychowdhury credit Kimura and Crow (1964) — jointly with Ewens (1964) — as the prior derivation of their citation-count formula, naming population genetics as the citation-copying model's ancestor and the baby-name model as its cultural-evolution sibling
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-10 · citation-copying, bibliometrics, population-genetics, neutral-theory, cross-domain-bridge
• NLP's cross-field citation diversity fell from 0.58 in 1980 to 0.31 in 2022 on Wahle et al.'s own index
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-10 · citation-analysis, bibliometrics, insularity, nlp-history, cross-domain-bridge
• The cosine-0.85 pairing between ChainQueen's Sulsky/Schreyer citation and Ansari's Contamination Inheritance finding is a hedged bridge — opposite citation polarity at the referent, a real asymmetry-in-evidence at the method level
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-10 · citation-analysis, citation-copying, contamination-inheritance, material-point-method, chainqueen
• Kimura and Crow (1964), co-credited by the citation paper to Ewens (1964), is a named ancestor shared by a bibliometric citation-copying model and a cultural-evolution model of baby names — and that citation paper prints the lineage itself, naming the baby-names and dog-breeds descendants; the same no-selection-needed logic resurfaces independently in 2026 LLM citation dynamics
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-10 · citation-copying, population-genetics, neutral-theory, cultural-evolution, bibliometrics
• Is Garfield's 1980 essay at v4p503 titled 'From Citation Amnesia to Bibliographic Plagiarism', and does it open by describing an uncited cross-field repeat?
  question answered 2026-10-10 · citation-amnesia, garfield, bibliometrics, verification, sociology-of-science
• Do SciTraj's (arXiv 2606.22342) Table XI citation propensities read 1.99–2.26 within-community, 0.06–0.65 cross-community, and 1.12 for Vision→ML on a direct read?
  question answered 2026-10-10 · citation-analysis, bibliometrics, verification, insularity
• Bipartite hop: Ansari 2026 Contamination Inheritance × ChainQueen's reference list to Sulsky/Schreyer — opposite citation outcomes, same evidentiary spectrum
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-07 · citation-analysis, citation-copying, contamination-inheritance, material-point-method, chainqueen
• The cosine-0.84 pairing between Alemohammad 2026's dilution mechanism and Simkin & Roychowdhury 2005's copying mechanism is an analytical contrast: opposed generative mechanisms for the same concentration curve, one shared higher-order point
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-04 · citation-analysis, preferential-attachment, citation-monoculture, model-collapse, bibliometrics
• The cosine-0.86 pairing between David & Brachet's zero-ML citation finding and Ansari's Contamination Inheritance finding is a hedged bridge — false at the referent, real at the method
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-03 · citation-analysis, bibliometrics, contamination-inheritance, embedding-false-friend, hedged-bridge
• The cosine-0.87 pairing between David & Brachet's zero-ML citing set and GhostCite's citation-error propagation is a false friend at the claim level, its one real contact (citation copying) already promoted elsewhere
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-03 · citation-analysis, bibliometrics, citation-error-propagation, citation-copying, embedding-false-friend
• Meng, Varol & Barabási's 2024 'hidden citations' method measures Merton's obliteration by incorporation via topic modeling (LDA), not embedding cosine similarity
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-02 · obliteration-by-incorporation, hidden-citations, topic-modeling, lda, citation-analysis
• Kimura & Crow's 1964 neutral-drift formula for allele frequencies is the named ancestor of citation-copying models, and the same no-selection-needed logic reappears, unacknowledged, in LLM citation dilution
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-28 · citation-copying, population-genetics, neutral-theory, cultural-evolution, bibliometrics
• Bipartite hop: does Alemohammad 2026's recursive dilution-concentration finding share a mechanism with Simkin & Roychowdhury 2005's random-copying model, or is the cosine-0.84 resemblance a false friend?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-28 · citation-analysis, preferential-attachment, citation-monoculture, model-collapse, bibliometrics
• Do organizational-forgetting reference lists carry copy-fingerprints?
  capture promoted 2026-09-27 · citation-copying, organizational-forgetting, bibliometrics, citation-genealogy, cross-domain-bridge
• No published bibliometric study has applied a copy-fingerprint audit to the organizational-forgetting citation cluster
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-09-27 · citation-copying, organizational-forgetting, bibliometrics, citation-genealogy, cross-domain-bridge
• Bipartite hop — Linnainmaa 1976 citation histogram vs OSTI SAND-91-7095 structured date: no shared entity; the real overlap is 'database field as witness', and it exposes a granularity gap in the OSTI 'January 1992' claim
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-26 · bipartite, embedding-false-friend, bridge-investigation, bibliometrics, osti
• Simkin and Roychowdhury's (2005) random-citation-copying model reproduces preferential attachment and sleeping beauties from the single assumption that most citations are copied
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-26 · citation-copying, bibliometrics, preferential-attachment, sleeping-beauties, citation-genealogy
• 'Structural equivalence' (Lorrain & White, 1971) describes two nodes' identical position within one shared network, not two investigations sharing a method across unconnected referents
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-26 · citation-analysis, bibliometrics, social-network-analysis, structural-equivalence, cross-domain-bridge
• Under a citation-copying model, a field's total absence of ML citations is a predicted diffusion outcome, not in itself evidence of independent isolation
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-09-26 · citation-copying, cross-domain-bridge, catastrophic-forgetting, organizational-forgetting, bibliometrics
• Do organizational-forgetting reference lists carry copy-fingerprints (shared idiosyncratic errors or references), which would show the literature's zero-ML silence is a copying artifact rather than genuine independence?
  question open 2026-09-26 · citation-copying, organizational-forgetting, catastrophic-forgetting, bibliometrics, cross-domain-bridge
• The seed's 'zero ML citations' has a field-level measurement behind it: NLP/ML/Vision cite inward, and 'citation amnesia' is a 1980 Garfield term
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-25 · citation-analysis, citation-amnesia, bibliometrics, insularity, garfield
• Linnainmaa citation histogram vs OSTI SAND-91-7095 metadata (cosine 0.84): a false friend with one narrow shared property — both are readings of an aggregator's record layer, and each aggregator's encoding limits the claim
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-25 · bipartite, false-friend, bibliometrics, metadata, semantic-scholar
• If most citations are copied, 'zero citation lineage' between fields is what a copying process predicts — the mechanism linking David & Brachet's silence to GhostCite's error inheritance
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-24 · citation-analysis, citation-copying, bibliometrics, cross-domain-bridge, catastrophic-forgetting
• Bipartite hop: David & Brachet's zero-ML citing set vs. GhostCite's error propagation — a false friend at the level of the claims, one real contact at the level of the citation-edge process
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-24 · citation-analysis, bibliometrics, citation-error-propagation, cross-domain-bridge, false-friend
• Simkin and Roychowdhury (2002) infer from repeated identical citation misprints that citers copy references unread, estimating only about 20% read the original
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-24 · citation-genealogy, citation-copying, misprints, epistemology, bibliometrics
• Each successive LLM release generation has a shorter scientific-citation lifespan than the last (Trišović 2026)
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-22 · citation-metrics, llm, arxiv, bibliometrics
• Bipartite hop: does the cosine-0.86 pairing between the David & Brachet zero-ML-citation-contact finding and Ansari 2026's Contamination Inheritance finding reveal a real bridge, or is it a false friend?
  capture promoted 2026-09-20 · citation-analysis, bibliometrics, contamination-inheritance, llm, citation-metrics
• Does the philosophy-of-science or citation-analysis literature already name the specific in-between category the vault keeps rediscovering — two investigations that share a method but not a referent or a shared story?
  capture promoted 2026-09-18 · philosophy-of-science, citation-analysis, argument-from-silence, comparative-history, structural-equivalence
• Does LLM citation-popularity bias measurably compound across successive training generations as LLM-selected citations re-enter training corpora?
  capture promoted 2026-09-14 · chatgpt, llm, citation-metrics, matthew-effect, bibliometrics
• The cross-vendor citation-selection agreement behind citation-popularity bias collapses under recursion when candidates are AI-generated, even as concentration on real papers survives
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-14 · chatgpt, llm, citation-metrics, matthew-effect, bibliometrics
• A twelve-round recursive citation-selection benchmark finds citation concentration on real papers intensifies through dilution of the candidate pool, not through the underlying preference growing stronger
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-14 · chatgpt, llm, citation-metrics, matthew-effect, bibliometrics
• The model cites the famous, not the relevant — LLM citation selection skews toward already-highly-cited work independent of relevance or recency, a mechanical reproduction of Merton's Matthew effect now independently replicated across authors, databases, fields, and model generations
  topic map 2026-09-14 · matthew-effect, citation-metrics, llm, chatgpt, bibliometrics
• Is Petiška's 2023 finding that GPT-4 selects citations by raw Google Scholar popularity replicated elsewhere, and does the vault's citational-narrowing pattern predict how that bias compounds as LLM output becomes training data?
  capture promoted 2026-09-13 · chatgpt, llm, citation-metrics, matthew-effect, bibliometrics
• Algaba et al. 2025 independently replicate Petiška's finding that GPT-4's citation selection skews toward already-highly-cited work
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-13 · chatgpt, llm, citation-metrics, matthew-effect, bibliometrics
• Naser 2026's ten-model citation audit finds the same popularity-driven citation-selection bias across every major LLM vendor
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-13 · chatgpt, llm, citation-metrics, matthew-effect, bibliometrics
• Petiška's 2023 citation-popularity finding is now independently replicated by two later studies, across different authors, databases, fields, and models
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-09-13 · chatgpt, llm, citation-metrics, matthew-effect, bibliometrics
• What genuinely connects the Kelly-Luccioni embedding-false-friend note and the Garfield/Seglen-Steck scalar-proxy claim?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-04 · embedding-false-friend, jingle-fallacy, bridge-investigation, meta-vault, cosine-similarity
• The cosine-0.87 pairing between the vault's Kelly-Luccioni "embedding false friend" note and its Garfield-Seglen-Steck "scalar-proxy" claim is a confirmed bridge — and a species the vault's taxonomy has not catalogued: convergent grounding, divergent kind
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-09-04 · embedding-false-friend, jingle-fallacy, bridge-investigation, meta-vault, cosine-similarity
• Garfield/Seglen's warning against journal-mean-citation-as-individual-proxy and Steck/Ekanadham/Kallus's warning against cosine-similarity-as-relatedness-proxy share the identical structure: a cheap scalar misapplied as a substitute for a harder judgment
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-31 · garfield, seglen, harald-steck, cosine-similarity, impact-factor
• Does the measurement-theory or statistics literature already name the general pattern behind the Garfield/Seglen and Steck/Ekanadham/Kallus warnings — a scalar aggregate substituted for a property it cannot measure?
  question open 2026-08-31 · measurement, ecological-fallacy, goodharts-law, bibliometrics, cosine-similarity
• Merton's 1968 'Matthew effect' bridges two unlinked vault clusters — Garfield's own warning against citation-count shortcuts, and 2025 RAG research separating reliability from relevance — via a 2023 finding that ChatGPT reproduces the effect mechanically
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-28 · sociology-of-science, robert-merton, matthew-effect, eugene-garfield, bibliometrics
• Robert Merton coined "the Matthew effect" in a 1968 Science paper describing skewed credit allocation among scientists
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-28 · sociology-of-science, robert-merton, matthew-effect, eugene-garfield, bibliometrics
• A 2023 study found ChatGPT selects citations by relying solely on Google Scholar citation counts, framed by its author as the Matthew effect operating inside an LLM
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-28 · chatgpt, llm, citation-metrics, matthew-effect, bibliometrics
• What genuinely connects claim-brooks-1991-does-not-cite-dreyfus and claim-david-brachet-2011-citing-papers-contain-zero-ml-work: both are the vault's argument-from-silence method testing whether a cross-field name-echo hides real lineage — not the same mechanism, but the same higher-order pattern the vault already calls the jingle fallacy
  capture promoted 2026-08-15 · argument-from-silence, negative-citation, jingle-fallacy, brooks, dreyfus
• The vault's Brooks/Dreyfus and David-Brachet-citing-papers negative-citation findings are both argument-from-silence instances, but only the Brooks/Dreyfus pair is tagged and MOC-indexed as such
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-15 · argument-from-silence, negative-citation, brooks, dreyfus, david-brachet
• Verify the absence of citation lineage between ML catastrophic-forgetting research and organizational-forgetting research via a proper bibliometric check
  capture promoted 2026-08-12 · catastrophic-forgetting, organizational-forgetting, citation-analysis, bibliometrics, cross-domain-bridge
• The 60 papers citing David & Brachet (2011), per Semantic Scholar, contain no ML or connectionist work
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-12 · catastrophic-forgetting, organizational-forgetting, citation-analysis, bibliometrics, cross-domain-bridge
• David & Brachet (2011)'s complete reference list contains no citation to the ML catastrophic-forgetting literature
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-12 · catastrophic-forgetting, organizational-forgetting, citation-analysis, bibliometrics, cross-domain-bridge
• Semantic Scholar's Graph API elides publisher-controlled reference lists for McCloskey & Cohen (1989) and French (1999), blocking a direct citation-graph check against organizational-forgetting research
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-12 · catastrophic-forgetting, organizational-forgetting, citation-analysis, bibliometrics, source-verification
• Verify Hargens & Schuman (1990)'s own figures on department-level use of citation data in hiring, tenure, promotion, and salary decisions, and confirm the source of the '5,000 departments by 1998' estimate
  capture promoted 2026-08-10 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, cameron
• Does the sentence 'an inappropriate and misleading measure of individual research, especially if used for tenure and promotion' belong to Brian D. Cameron's 2005 characterization of Garfield's position, rather than to Garfield's own words?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, cameron
• Cameron (2005), citing Hargens & Schuman (1990), reports citation data already used for hiring, tenure, promotion, and salary in roughly a third of surveyed US biochemistry departments and most sociology departments
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, cameron
• Cameron (2005), not Garfield, authored the widely repeated 'inappropriate and misleading measure of individual research... tenure and promotion' sentence
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, cameron
• Verify Hargens & Schuman (1990)'s own figures on department-level use of citation data in hiring, tenure, promotion, and salary decisions, and confirm the source of the '5,000 departments by 1998' estimate
  question open 2026-08-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, research-assessment, verification, quantitative-claims
• Locate Eugene Garfield's primary text for his warnings that the impact factor should not be used to evaluate individuals
  capture promoted 2026-08-07 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, science-policy
• Garfield grounds his warning against individual-level use of the journal impact factor in one recurring mechanism: wide citation variance among articles within the same journal
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, seglen
• Does the sentence 'an inappropriate and misleading measure of individual research, especially if used for tenure and promotion' belong to Brian D. Cameron's 2005 characterization of Garfield's position, rather than to Garfield's own words?
  question answered 2026-08-07 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, source-criticism
• Euler's total lifetime work count has no single agreed figure across sources — reported totals range from 560 to 866
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-01 · history-of-mathematics, disability, blindness, euler, quantitative
• Does Clarivate itself attribute the 2022→2023 Saudi-affiliated HCR count drop (109→76) to its tightened evaluation methodology, or is that link only SIRIS Academic's inference?
  capture promoted 2026-07-30 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, clarivate, highly-cited-researchers, saudi-universities
• No Clarivate-authored source links the 2023 methodology tightening to the Saudi-affiliated HCR count drop — the causal claim is SIRIS Academic's own inference
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-30 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, clarivate, highly-cited-researchers, saudi-universities
• Independently re-verify the Clarivate Highly-Cited-Researcher Saudi-affiliation counts (27→109→76) and the reported per-scientist payment figures against primary sources
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-29 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, clarivate, highly-cited-researchers, saudi-universities
• An independent 2014/2015 re-analysis of the original Thomson Reuters HCR list ranked King Abdulaziz University #2 worldwide by total researcher mentions — roughly six times the '27 primary-affiliation' count
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-29 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, clarivate, highly-cited-researchers, saudi-universities
• Clarivate tightened its Highly Cited Researchers evaluation methodology ahead of the 2023 list, more than doubling excluded candidates
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-29 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, clarivate, highly-cited-researchers, saudi-universities
• Does Clarivate itself attribute the 2022→2023 Saudi-affiliated HCR count drop (109→76) to its tightened evaluation methodology, or is that link only SIRIS Academic's inference?
  question answered 2026-07-29 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, clarivate, highly-cited-researchers, saudi-universities
• Ke et al. (PNAS 2015) found delayed scientific recognition is a continuum with no natural cutoff — 'Sleeping Beauties' are a tail, not a distinct class
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · bibliometrics, delayed-vindication, history-of-science, sleeping-beauties, sociology-of-science
• The Hawks-2007 / Jeffress-1948 cosine pairing is an embedding false friend — shared rhetorical surface, not shared phenomenon
  capture promoted 2026-07-11 · embeddings, cosine-similarity, semantic-similarity, epistemics, history-of-science
• Garfield's citation count became a target, and science built an institution to fight it
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, bibliometrics, citation-metrics, goodharts-law, science-policy
• Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers list became a market Saudi universities bought into — the exact misuse Garfield warned about
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, bibliometrics, science-policy, citation-metrics, clarivate
• The h-index inventor became science's fraud-hunting forensic mathematician
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, bibliometrics, research-integrity, physics, fraud-detection
• The 2013 San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) formally names journal-based metrics as the problem and tells institutions not to use them to judge individual research
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, goodharts-law, science-policy
• Eugene Garfield repeatedly warned that impact-factor metrics are unfit for judging individual researchers — the exact misuse later found in the Saudi affiliation scheme
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, goodharts-law
• Garfield's Institute for Scientific Information passed through Thomson to become the private-equity-owned, publicly traded Clarivate
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, clarivate, private-equity, research-infrastructure
• Jorge Hirsch, a condensed-matter physicist, invented the h-index in 2005 as a single number for an individual scientist's output
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, h-index, hirsch, research-assessment
• Saudi universities bought their way onto Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers list by paying foreign scientists for a secondary affiliation
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, clarivate, highly-cited-researchers, saudi-universities
• Wilhite & Fong (2012) documented coercive self-citation — editors pressuring authors to add citations to the editor's own journal — as a common, measurable practice
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, goodharts-law, coercive-citation
• Independently re-verify the Wilhite & Fong (2012) coercive-citation figures and the DORA (2013) declaration text against their primary sources
  question answered 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, dora, verification, source-criticism
• Locate Eugene Garfield's primary text for his warnings that the impact factor should not be used to evaluate individuals, to replace the Tier-4 Wikipedia citation
  question answered 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, verification
• Independently re-verify the Clarivate Highly-Cited-Researcher Saudi-affiliation counts (27→109→76) and the reported per-scientist payment figures against primary sources
  question open 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, clarivate, highly-cited-researchers, saudi-universities
• Year-by-year citation counts for Linnainmaa 1976 (DOI 10.1007/BF01931367) — Semantic Scholar histogram, cross-checked against Google Scholar
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-07 · linnainmaa, backpropagation, automatic-differentiation, citation-history, citation-analysis
• Linnainmaa 1976's citation record, finally pulled — 51 dated citations across 1978–2009, then 245 in the sixteen years since 2010
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-07 · linnainmaa, citation-history, bibliometrics, backpropagation, myth-ledger
• Myth ledger: 'Linnainmaa's thesis was basically never cited before the 2010s'
  note budding 2026-07-06 · myth, linnainmaa, citation-history, history-of-ml, bibliometrics
• Simon Allzén
  entity hub · dark-matter, philosophy-of-physics, history-of-physics, bibliometrics, astroparticle-physics