“…To be sure, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that citation counts reflect something other than quality (Aksnes, Langfeldt, & Wouters, 2019;Bornmann & Daniel, 2008). For instance, citation counts covary with factors such as length of the title and the presence of colons or hyphens in the title (Paiva, Lima, & Paiva, 2012;Zhou, Tse, & Witheridge, 2019) and can be affected by other non-scientific variables, such as the size of ones social network (Mählck & Persson, 2000), the use of social media, and the posting of preprints on searchable archives (Gargouri et al, 2010;Gentil-Beccot, Mele, & Brooks, 2009;Lawrence, 2001;Luarn & Chiu, 2016;Peoples, Midway, Sackett, Lynch, & Cooney, 2016). Other research indicates that citation counts tend to be higher for papers on so-called "hot" topics and for researchers associated with big-named faculty (Petersen et al, 2014).…”