How and Why I Count(ed). A Response to Ramsay MacMullen

Nathan Pilkington

Nathan Pilkington University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA

Keywords: citation scores, Google Scholar, Web of Science, performance-based research funding systems, ancient historians

Abstract

In a recent publication in this journal, Professor Ramsay MacMullen failed to correctly represent thoughts I had posted online, though not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal. I thus establish here my positions on the value of citation scores, both how to calculate them and why one would want to do so

Author Biography

Nathan Pilkington, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA

pilkingtonn@uncw.edu