Comment on Article-Level Metrics: An Ill-Conceived and Meretricious Idea by Genaro japos

Thank you for the info that citation counts can be gamed easily. I did not kow this and please share your sources on this. The good side of google is you can click to trace who cites the article and you gain access to the articles that cited the paper.A reader finds if the the article is cited by grey literature or by credible sources. Traceability is an important component of metrics. However, the scientific literacy of researchers needs to be upgraded since many still do not even know google scholar and other online sources, and journal and article metrics. Basically, in developing countries, the print source is still popular and unpublished theses and dissertations. Most journals are still in print format.