"I'd say one can't typically be considered "researcher" before getting at least few hundreds of citations."
Depends on what field you are in. In experimental physics (my main field) 10 good citations can get you tenure. Even though I and my team managed half a dozen world firsts in a hot field, I doubt I reached a hundred before I retired. In biological sciences even the best workers can take decades to reach a hundred.
"I'd say one can't typically be considered "researcher" before getting at least few hundreds of citations."
Depends on what field you are in. In experimental physics (my main field) 10 good citations can get you tenure. Even though I and my team managed half a dozen world firsts in a hot field, I doubt I reached a hundred before I retired. In biological sciences even the best workers can take decades to reach a hundred.
I think I will have to trade my knee boots for hipboots
"I'd say one can't typically be considered "researcher" before getting at least few hundreds of citations."
Depends on what field you are in. In experimental physics (my main field) 10 good citations can get you tenure. Even though I and my team managed half a dozen world firsts in a hot field, I doubt I reached a hundred before I retired.
Maybe you should've checked :-) What branch of physics specifically are you talking about?
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In biological sciences even the best workers can take decades to reach a hundred.
This is not true. I can speak with confidence about 1) Biological sciences (specifically biomedical and genetics). 2) Statistics.
Although these fields are seemingly very different good researchers in these fields have thousands of citations. Even best single papers accumulate thousands of citations. I accumulated over 100 in statistical genetics even before I graduated. My citation rate right now is 12 citations a month.
"I'd say one can't typically be considered "researcher" before getting at least few hundreds of citations."
Depends on what field you are in. In experimental physics (my main field) 10 good citations can get you tenure. Even though I and my team managed half a dozen world firsts in a hot field, I doubt I reached a hundred before I retired.
Maybe you should've checked :-) What branch of physics specifically are you talking about?
Quoted message said:
In biological sciences even the best workers can take decades to reach a hundred.
This is not true. I can speak with confidence about 1) Biological sciences (specifically biomedical and genetics). 2) Statistics.
Although these fields are seemingly very different good researchers in these fields have thousands of citations. Even best single papers accumulate thousands of citations. I accumulated over 100 in statistical genetics even before I graduated. My citation rate right now is 12 citations a month.
I'd say one can't typically be considered "researcher" before getting at least few hundreds of citations."
Depends on what field you are in. In experimental physics (my main field) 10 good citations can get you tenure. Even though I and my team managed half a dozen world firsts in a hot field, I doubt I reached a hundred before I retired. In biological sciences even the best workers can take decades to reach a hundred.
So, regarding physics. This paper by a physicist JE Hirsch (arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0508025) was just publicized in Science Magazine (Aug 12 2005).
In author's opinion a person deserves tenure if s/he has 12 papers each cited at least 12 times. For a full professor one has to have 18 papers, each cited at least 18 times.
The index he proposed to characterize a researcher is "h": h papers cited at least h times. The index weeds out people writing bad papers nobody cites, as well as those who has just few articles with very many citations.
In author's opinion a person deserves tenure if s/he has 12 papers each cited at least 12 times. For a full professor one has to have 18 papers, each cited at least 18 times.
While searching for the web for links to my web site, I came across one professor who was claiming my reference to his research paper on my web site as a citation of his research paper.
In author's opinion a person deserves tenure if s/he has 12 papers each cited at least 12 times. For a full professor one has to have 18 papers, each cited at least 18 times.
While searching for the web for links to my web site, I came across one professor who was claiming my reference to his research paper on my web site as a citation of his research paper.
It is a small brave world after all.
I recently came across a 3rd citation of my web site in an academic research paper.
THE RECENT STAGES OF THE EPIDEMIOLOGIC TRANSITION IN CANADA: WHICH HYPOTHESES ARE ACCURATE AND WHICH ARE NOT? 35 pages long in PDF file format, published July - August 2005 International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Princeton University http://iussp2005.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=51023
In author's opinion a person deserves tenure if s/he has 12 papers each cited at least 12 times. For a full professor one has to have 18 papers, each cited at least 18 times.
While searching for the web for links to my web site, I came across one professor who was claiming my reference to his research paper on my web site as a citation of his research paper.
It is a small brave world after all.
I recently came across a 3rd citation of my web site in an academic research paper.
THE RECENT STAGES OF THE EPIDEMIOLOGIC TRANSITION IN CANADA: WHICH HYPOTHESES ARE ACCURATE AND WHICH ARE NOT? 35 pages long in PDF file format, published July - August 2005 International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Princeton University http://iussp2005.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=51023