Is Citation Count a Legitimate Indicator of Scientific Impact? A Case Study of Upper (1974) “The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of Writer’s Block” and Its Derivatives

The work by Upper (1974) was a blank paper. Multiple replication studies were published. This work examined the number of citations received by these papers, and manually checked the citing papers to determine why they made the citations. The Dimensions literature database was queried with the searc...

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Main Author: Andy Wai Kan Yeung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-10-01
Series:Publications
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/12/4/35
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