Comment Re:Not a measure of quality (Score 1) 139
Citations are a terrible way of measuring paper quality. One of the most recent citations of a paper of mine was from some guys I know at MIT, who basically said 'and this is exactly the wrong way of doing it'. A lot of the things we cite with the biggest citation counts are benchmark suites. There's a reason that the REF[1] explicitly didn't include bibliometrics when evaluating impact (at least in computer science, not sure about other fields).
[1] The 'Research Excellence Framework', which assesses and ranks the research output of UK university departments.