Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being cited or quoted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being cited.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being, or appropriate to be,
cited .
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Examples
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What is obvious from this equation is that the impact factor depends crucially on which article types Thomson Scientific deems as "citable" - the fewer, the better (i.e., the lower the denominator, the higher the impact factor).
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The names and institutions of the authors are published with each article, so all of the material can be cited by students in their classwork (hence it's "citable").
BP fires someone you never heard of Joel Achenbach 2010
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The variability comes from the decision of what to include as "citable" articles and from the journals that are covered in Scopus versus ISI.
Guestimating PLoS ONE impact factor Pedro Beltrao 2009
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The variability comes from the decision of what to include as "citable" articles and from the journals that are covered in Scopus versus ISI.
Archive 2009-04-01 Pedro Beltrao 2009
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Wikipedia never claims to be an academic resource (and no decent academic would ever consider it as such, even in highschool, wikipedia is never considerd a "citable" source) but rather a means to get the "gist" of a topic and a gateway to more reliable sources.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Jinxmchue 2009
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Wikipedia never claims to be an academic resource (and no decent academic would ever consider it as such, even in highschool, wikipedia is never considerd a "citable" source) but rather a means to get the "gist" of a topic and a gateway to more reliable sources.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Breithaupt 2009
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Wikipedia never claims to be an academic resource (and no decent academic would ever consider it as such, even in highschool, wikipedia is never considerd a "citable" source) but rather a means to get the "gist" of a topic and a gateway to more reliable sources.
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Wikipedia never claims to be an academic resource (and no decent academic would ever consider it as such, even in highschool, wikipedia is never considerd a "citable" source) but rather a means to get the "gist" of a topic and a gateway to more reliable sources.
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One problem with this game, leaving aside the ethics of it, is that the rules are unclear-editors can, for example, try to persuade Thomson Scientific to reduce the denominator, but the company refuses to make public its process for choosing "citable" article types.
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Number of articles deemed to be "citable" by Thomson Scientific that were published in Journal X in 2003-2004
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