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The RCR can assist in “the dissemination of a dynamic way to measure the influence of articles on their respective fields,” said study coauthor George Santangelo, Director of the OPA, in a statement.
The RCR is just the latest article-level metric (ALM), which quantifies the impact of science from the perspective of a single study. ALMs represent a departure from citation metrics that measure the impact of the scientific literature at the level of entire journals, such as the much-derided journal impact factor (JIF). Instead, the RCR relies upon the “co-citation network,” which is formed by the lists of cited articles in papers that cite the study in question. In addition, an individual RCR is benchmarked to a group of papers that share some aspect—such ...
