title: Counting citations in texts rather than reference lists to improve the accuracy of assessing scientific contribution: citation frequency of individual articles in other papers more fairly measures their scientific contribution than mere presence in reference lists.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Biological Sciences, Zhongguancun Life Science Park, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Wen-Ru
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Deng-Ke
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Niu
mesh_terms: D001634:Bibliographies as Topic; D015706:Bibliometrics; D006801:Humans; D055811:Journal Impact Factor; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011643:Publishing