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B. Ian Hutchins
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Office of Portfolio Analysis, Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Travis A. Hoppe
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Office of Portfolio Analysis, Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Rebecca A. Meseroll
Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Office of Portfolio Analysis, Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
James M. Anderson
Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
George M. Santangelo
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
* E-mail: [email protected]
Affiliation: Office of Portfolio Analysis, Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7201-3164Citation: Hutchins BI, Hoppe TA, Meseroll RA, Anderson JM, Santangelo GM (2017) Additional support for RCR: A validated article-level measure of scientific influence. PLoS Biol15(10): e2003552. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2003552
Academic Editor: David Vaux, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Received: July 7, 2017; Accepted: August 29, 2017; Published: October 2, 2017
This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication.
Data Availability: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files.
Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Abbreviations: ECR, expected citation rate; FCR, field citation rate; NIH, National Institutes of Health; RCR, Relative Citation Ratio
Provenance: Commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
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