"We intend to defend against these citations, which we think were issued in error," Mr. Fisher said.
Data Descriptors include formal data citations, which help track data reuse and credit scientists for sharing their data.
In total we reviewed 131 citations, which together provided 230 case studies of 181 separate IMT/PIM interventions.
The overall result, he wrote, was skewed by "one indicator, citations, which accounted for 32.5% of the total weighting".
These details are not available on indexing sites or in referenced citations, which are increasingly the main source of information for literature searches.
The highly experienced sports journalist Sue Mott oversaw the proceedings and edited the citations, which were compiled by Caitlin Doherty, James Beeson, Bridie Pearson-Jones and Gabriel Popham.
In "The Case Against Fluoride," our arguments were supported with numerous scientific citations, which proponents of fluoridation have made little effort to acknowledge or refute.
Even the function of the traffic police is to keep things moving, rather than issue citations which only will worsen the flow of traffic by slowing things down.
The House voted last month, 223 to 32, with most Republicans abstaining, to issue the citations, which were the first Congress has approved against the executive branch since the Reagan administration.
The citations, which included an order to stop all work at the site, charged that the owner and the contractor had failed to carry out safety procedures properly, said Paul Wein, a department spokesman.
This is another trait that altmetrics have in common with citations, which alone are not always a good indicator for impactful research; after all, citations can occur for many reasons (Cronin, 1984; Bornmann and Daniel, 2008).
