The proposition asserted in the title of this post is unquestionably true (so you can probably plan on retiring your citation indices). The question is, how? "These [cyber-]metrics will change the role of academic journals, too, taking from them much of the authority they have traditionally held as arbiters of quality.... We will see open data becoming increasingly important as an asset in the knowledge commons. As researchers optimize their results by drawing upon publicly available data sets, cybermetrics will be there to meter usage of that data.... Print-based metrics will be rapidly transcended by a richer, deeper set of measurements that will help broaden the concepts, genres, and uses of all our intellectual work."
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