US News Engineering Rankings

modestmelody
Fri, 15 May 2009 11:24:02 +0000

To be fair, gt, while I do agree with you completely about quality over quantity, NRC attempts to use both which is why the number of citations is taken into account. Now, this is a hard thing to do right, since you may have a huge impact on your field but the field may be limited so getting 6-7 citations may mean that you’re the most influential in an area, however, in general, citations represent the importance of your work in the growing body of knowledge and help to balance out those who are just producing unimportant papers and those who are producing work that’s being built upon elsewhere.