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Bibliometricians and scientometricians often use citation-based indicators to rank and evaluate articles, journals, and authors in academic publishing (Hicks, Wouters et_al, 2015; Owens, 2013). The authors argue that the projection of citations among papers onto journals violates this transitivity assumption and that the causal connection is lost. Such measures have been used to quantify the influence of authors (Radicchi, Fortunato et_al, 2009) and papers (Chen, Xie et_al, 2007; Zhou, Zeng et_al, 2016). When projecting citations onto journals, the authors implicitly assume the same, namely that citation links among journals capture credit allocation from . . .
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