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Arxiv Trackbacks
Aug.24, 2005 in
Science
Over at Musings, I just learned that the Arxiv now has trackback capabilities. Now we can spend all our time that we normally spend counting citations, instead counting trackbacks!
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August 25th, 2005 at 12:13 pm
> Now we can spend all our time that we normally spend counting citations, instead counting trackbacks
Citations may be a (very rough) approximation how many people have used your paper for their own research; Thus it is a (very rough) proxy how useful a paper is.
I am not sure what trackbacks would measure
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August 25th, 2005 at 1:43 pm
It will measure how agitated the blogosphere is over your paper
I can think of a few papers already which deserve high trackback ratings from this point of view…
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