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garfield

17 notes carry this tag — 8 claims, 1 observation, 2 questions, 6 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• 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
• 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?
  capture promoted 2026-09-01 · measurement-theory, construct-validity, ecological-fallacy, garfield, seglen
• Cronbach and Meehl's 1955 'construct validity' names the general measurement-theory pattern underlying both the Garfield/Seglen and Steck/Ekanadham/Kallus warnings: a score that is never equated with the construct it indexes
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-01 · construct-validity, measurement-theory, psychometrics, cronbach, meehl
• Messick's 'construct underrepresentation' (1994) names the closest documented failure mode to the Garfield/Seglen and Steck pattern: a scalar too narrow to carry a multidimensional construct
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-01 · construct-validity, construct-underrepresentation, measurement-theory, messick, garfield
• W. S. Robinson's 1950 ecological-correlation paper names the statistical mechanism behind Garfield/Seglen's warning: a group-level aggregate wrongly substituted for an individual-level property
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-01 · ecological-fallacy, measurement-theory, garfield, seglen, statistics
• What genuinely connects the Petiška/Garfield/RA-RAG bridge and the Gates-Jevons/Liang-Olsder cosine-0.87 bridge: two different species of "confirmed bridge," not one relationship
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-31 · matthew-effect, citation-metrics, chatgpt, rag, embedding-false-friend
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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