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

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

Keywords

• citation scores
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science
• performance-based research funding systems
• ancient historians