Multiple metrics required to measure research performance


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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Sir Your Editorial 'Experts still needed' (_Nature_ 457, 7–8; 2009) is correct in that no metric alone can substitute for expert


evaluation, because no single metric (including citation counts) is correlated strongly enough with expert judgements for it to take their place. But some individual metrics, such as


citation counts, are nevertheless significantly correlated with expert judgements. It is likely that a battery of multiple metrics, when considered jointly, will be even more strongly


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AFFILIATIONS * Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3P8, Canada Stevan Harnad * School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of


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