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Formula Predicts Research Papers' Future Citations


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Predicting the future

A model forecasts how many citations a research paper will pick up on the basis of five years of citation data.

Credit: Data from Dashun Wang/Science

It sounds like a science administrator’s dream—or a scientist's worst nightmare: a formula that predicts how often research papers will be cited.

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