OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MINDCitations considered harmful

Knowledge elevator to the moon

The cyclical hierarchy of citations

Use:Impact on author;

Impact on cited works;Impact on venues

Publish:Writing peer-reviewed;

Work indexed;Cited works receive “+1”

Cite: Show derivation;

Uphold intellectual honesty

Prior work is cited in new

writings

New writing is made “public”

Accessible to future literature

searches

Cited work gets a “+1”

Effect on JIF, H-index, i10-index, etc

Garfield

Garfield

If the book is the macro unit of thought, and the periodical is the micro unit of thought, then you can consider the citation index as the molecular unit of thought

Renaissance

Enlightenment

Romanticism

Post-citationism

Theoretical lens for analysis of the landscape

Peer-reviewed literature

Citation-based metrics

Accessible communities for interdisciplinary

learning

Altmetrics

Research questions

• Are there barriers to changing practices around citations?

• Can using qualitative inputs and measures to describe research, alongside statistics-based measures, derive extra value in terms of stimulating communities of practice?

• Will further development in the field of (alt)metrics, and a conceptual framework designed specifically for understanding how to measure impact, result in a better HCI experience for both writers and analysts?

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