Comment on Article-Level Metrics: An Ill-Conceived and Meretricious Idea by David Zetland (@aguanomics)

This is a big topic and one post cannot cover it all (as we see in these interesting comments), but the basic idea of measuring “impact” by the interest of others is sound. I’ve proposed a *difficult* to game method (with several other useful attributes) here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/2q80214867370564/