unverified-synthesis

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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