Talk:Scientific citation

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I don't have time right now to fix this now, but a note for anyone who comes along and uses this: This article suggests that quantity of citation is a sufficient metric of scientific merit. It's not. A lot of other factors come into play when someone in the sciences reads a paper, including the quality of the publication being cited, the credibility of the authors, and, yes even in the hard sciences prior knowledge, assumptions and commitments to various theoretical positions color the understandings that different scientists bring to the act of reading a scientific text. Good grief. Interesting reading on this topic include:

  • Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science by Charles Bazerman [[1]]
  • Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts by Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar

Andicat 17:35, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

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