citation_rats

"Citation rat" is a metaphor for an uncertain interdisciplinary existence rooted in scientometrics. The citation rat scurries around below conventional scientific edifices looking for research metadata and feeds off the scraps of normal science, which are occasionally delicious. The rodent in question  tries to develop new ideas that are unburdened by insularity. Dissemination of these ideas usually results in adverse peer-review outcomes and expressions of disapproval from the 'in group'. Unlike Rattus norvegicus, this species does not produce many offspring.,