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Now, if my paper were to be cited by many other papers in the future, those holding shares in my paper would receive frequent dividend payments, adding to their bank balance. The share price of my paper should be driven up as demand for shares in my paper increases due to the regular dividend payments. If, on the other hand, my peers collectively decide my paper contains no valuable research contribution and is unlikely to be cited in the future, the price of shares in my paper will be driven down.

Essentially, Citemine works a bit like Google PageRank^™, except instead of waiting for a paper to accumulate a large number of links from other papers before it becomes identified as important, we use the wisdom the crowd (the market) to forecast which papers will receive a lot of citations. We expect this to have the effect of expediting research, since important new work will be easier to find, which is something we hope you will find valuable. Would it be too corny to call this rating SageRank?

In this way, Citemine tracks what the scientific community thinks of any given paper that’s in the system (the paper’s share price), and it also provides a rating for the people who read and write papers – the researchers – in the form of the sum of the value of their share portfolio and their bank balance. Unlike citation counts, h index or g index, the Citemine rating is a direct reflection of how your peers value your work at the present point in time, and how they think your work will be valued for at least a short time into the future. Because of this, Citemine delivers leading or predictive metrics, rather than trailing ones, which are the sort usually used to evaluate a scientist’s publishing reputation. We think this might be of use to funding agencies and employers of researchers. Let us know what you think.