[1707.09955] Comparing People with Bibliometrics

[1707.09955] Comparing People with Bibliometrics:

Bibliometric measures, citation and download counts, have been shown to be useful and accurate in a number of areas. When aggregated over large entities, such as universities [13,18], countries [13,29], or journals [20] bibliometric measures can provide accurate measures of the quantity and quality of research.

Additionally, persons with very high citation counts are, almost always, very well regarded researchers. This means that citations can be accurately used to recognize these individuals, and predict high honors [3]. 

These successes have led some to use bibliometric measures to evaluate people. In most cases this constitutes a misuse of the statistics. Decision aids such as citation or download statistics may well be able to identify most of the top people in a field, but they have almost no power in making the more common 41st chair [21] type of personnel decision: deciding between a set of similarly qualified candidates.

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