The giving of exact source citations is not a matter of pedantry but establishes the scientific basis by which others can check the evidence.
This points to the need of validation of patent citations methodologies, which we address by testing a recent methodology for studying technological evolution, namely connectivity analysis of citation networks.
All citations were reviewed by two co-authors and citations which were deemed potentially relevant by either reviewer were examined in full by both investigators.
The website works by aggregating citations which support or challenge the existence of each purported EPA, using a mathematical algorithm to assign an evidentiary strength score to each, and generating a table which represents the current but ever-changing state of the empirical evidence.
The underlying "boost factor" is also useful to discover scientific breakthroughs and talents much earlier than through classical citation analysis, which by now has become a widespread method to measure scientific excellence, influencing scientific careers and the distribution of research funds.
The exclusion of OldMedline subset allows this query to focus on Pre-MEDLINE citations ("as supplied by publisher" and "in process" citations), which are not yet manually indexed by NLM curators.
The overall result, he wrote, was skewed by "one indicator, citations, which accounted for 32.5% of the total weighting".
In other words in a system that pays police less than a level 3 salary, the police supplement their income up to a level 3 salary by issuing freelance citations which they keep as income.
Initial database searches retrieved 722 citations of which 525 citations remained after duplicates were removed.
