The major limitation of the entire class of citation-based metrics has always been their inability to capture the real-world impact of a body of research, which may not necessarily be reflected by the NC received by a paper or an author 1) 2) 3)
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Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Science: a longitudinal and cross-disciplinary comparison. Harzing AW, Alakangas S. Scientometrics. 2016;106:787–804.
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Three options for citation tracking: Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science. Bakkalbasi N, Bauer K, Glover J, Wang L. Biomed Digit Libr. 2006;3:7.
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The h-index is no longer an effective correlate of scientific reputation. Koltun V, Hafner D. PLoS One. 2021;16:0.