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Can bibliometrics take account of egative citations (highly cited research that is proven to be false)?

April 26, 2017account bibliometrics citations cited False highly negative Research

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Can bibliometrics take account of
egative citations (highly cited research that is proven to be false)?

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No, but the expert advice is that research that becomes highly cited in this way is sufficiently rare not to affect results when aggregated at the broad level of subject groups.