14 Sep 2004
CS 5244 – Bibliometrics
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Fragmentation
¡Motivation from academia
lThe “popularity contest”
lGetting others to use your intellectual property and credit you with it
¡Spread your knowledge wide across disciplines
lAcademic yardstick for tenure (and for hiring)
¡The more the better – fragment your results
¡The higher quality the better – chase best journals
To think about: what is
fragmentation’s relation to the aforementioned
bibliometric laws?