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> Rui Carvalho wrote: > >> But keep in mind that citation counts are the closest we academics have >> to a >> democratic system ;) > What does one do if one wishes to be critical of a particular methodology without 'voting' for it? Omit the citation? Unless paper citation counts have an equivalent to the rel="nofollow" attribute for HTML links*, people who judge quality by citation count will not be getting the whole story, surely? Tom. * http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html - Google's solution to "comment spam" and a method to allow web page owners to link to things without implicitly endorsing them (arguably a flaw in Google's PageRank algorithm, but they're in charge of writing the web as much as reading it nowadays so this is their solution).