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SUBMITTER: Radicchi F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3492866 | biostudies-other | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Scientific reports 20121108
Comments are special types of publications whose aim is to correct or criticize previously published papers. For this reason, comments are believed to make commented papers less worthy or trusty to the eyes of the scientific community, and thus predestined to have low scientific impact. Here, we show that such belief is not supported by empirical evidence. We consider thirteen major publication outlets in science, and perform systematic comparisons between the citations accumulated by commented ...[more]