Citations are not a measure of quality but a are measure of popularity! But we cant ignore them Citations matter, both to individuals and their institutions, hugely now & even more in future

Citations are fundamentally important because …. Each citation indicates an influence of the original presentation on another And hence The accumulated number of citations to a particular presentation provides a measure of its total influence

Citations Why important Count no. of cites and benchmark for: Measure of quality, counted for some disciplines in ERA Leads to other successes Count no. of cites and benchmark for: (1) a person’s publishing career: h-factor (2) an individual paper At least 3 schemes: Web of Science/ISI, Scopus, Google scholar/Publish or Perish harzing.com/pop.htm

Is there a secret to citation success? Significance Influence Presentation Sustained