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Using Crowdsourcing to Evaluate Published Scientific Literature: Methods and Example

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Citations increase with journal quality and time since publication.

To confirm that extracted citation counts, journal rank, and publication date conformed to expected patterns, citation counts were fit as a function of publication date controlling for journal quality (SJR; upper panel) and citation counts were fit as a function of journal quality (lower panel). No differences were seen between papers that were “known” (included) and “unknown” (excluded).

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0100647.g004