A recent proposal recommending the deployment of surveillance software in order to monitor those accessing academic material has drawn fire from digital rights advocates and scientists.
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"The use of citation networks as a ranking methods is not free from problems, but it's, IMO, a vastly superior approach to scientific value discovery and would yield a much better service to the scientific community in general than the current peer review