Pedro Domingos: citation counts that don't divide by author count are unserious

lemire · x · 2026-09-24

Pedro Domingos argues that any citation counting scheme failing to divide each citation by the number of authors is unserious. Computer scientist Daniel Lemire responded by sharing his own C-Score, a metric computed with per-author-normalized citations, backing the idea. The exchange highlights long-standing criticism that h-index-style metrics inflate credit for large-team papers.

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