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The use of the number of citations to reflect quality is tempting but quite problematic. The citation count is nevertheless used abundantly and feeds our addiction to become better. It has been a while, but I didn't forget the first time I was cited. Neither will I easily forget getting cited within 10 days of the publication of an article. I also will not forget the many times my work was mentioned in article but without the matching journal article. Those citations "do not count".

I cannot link this to an article (plz let me know if you know a good study about this), but it's a public secret that scholars prefer citing prestigious journals when they have the choice to cite the equal or sometimes even more informative article in a less prestigious journal.