From there it got strange. A few agencies, like the Allegheny County Health Dept, started using this metric, citing Best et al. Then others started to use it, too, citing Allegheny...pic.twitter.com/T3sGJX7SPR
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From there it got strange. A few agencies, like the Allegheny County Health Dept, started using this metric, citing Best et al. Then others started to use it, too, citing Allegheny...pic.twitter.com/T3sGJX7SPR
When we dug deeper it just became a web of self-citations, with all of the studies actually only relying on Best et al. (here's us trying to untangle the web!)pic.twitter.com/NcQk2qZhIC
(we cleaned up the handwritten notes for the paper...but notice how much ties into Best et al. and Allegheny)pic.twitter.com/wU2qYRd7Pm
We did a literature review of all outbreaks we could find to formally test this 30% metric. Guess what? it doesn't work.pic.twitter.com/9Ka1ONtWJv
And we published a paper showing this, which I'm pretty sure has 0 citations, but I still think it's one of my most important papers. Because it did have one key, non-academic citation...pic.twitter.com/pXQzN1MUDM
Our paper got attention after there was an outbreak in a VA hospital in ....ALLEGHENY COUNTY (!)pic.twitter.com/BCZd0O1fXc
The VA Inspector General investigated. And, for the first time I'm aware, flagged that this 30% rule may not be all it was cracked up to be, citing our work (!)pic.twitter.com/aKtRELkRBj
There were hearings on this...where they discussed the false sense of security from this "30%" metricpic.twitter.com/8qLU8HrylJ
And then...the VA revised its guidance and DROPPED THE 30% RULE! Same with Allegheny County!pic.twitter.com/Z8ltJx3ihU
Side note: this is why I also think things like H-Index are nonsense. There are ways to have impact that go behind citations of your work in peer-reviewed journals. -end-
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