Arxiv Trackbacks

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!

2 Replies to “Arxiv Trackbacks”

  1. > 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

  2. 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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