Paul is Researcher at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW). and PhD candidate at Centre for Science and Technology Studies.

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The case for citation count ranges

Citation counts have a prominent role in bibliometrics, but do they really represent all citations of a document? Paul Donner shows the different ways in which citation counts can vary and proposes a method for presenting citation counts with more nuance: citation count ranges.

Paul Donner • July 16, 2026 • 1 comment