Additional support for RCR: A validated article-level measure of scientific influence

About the Authors: B. Ian Hutchins Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing Affiliation: Office of Portfolio Analysis, Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America Travis A. Hoppe Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing - review & editing Affiliation: Office of Portfolio Analysis, Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America Rebecca A. Meseroll Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing Affiliation: Office of Portfolio Analysis, Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America James M. Anderson Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing - review & editing Affiliation: Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America George M. Santangelo Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing * E-mail: george.santangelo@nih.gov Affiliation: Office of Portfolio Analysis, Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7201-3164Citation: Hutchins BI, Hoppe TA, Meseroll RA, Anderson JM, Santangelo GM (2017) Additional support for RCR: PLoS Biol15(10): e2003552. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2003552 Academic Editor: David Vaux, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia Received: July 7, 2017; Accepted: August 29, 2017; Published: October 2, 2017 This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. [...]we take exception to Janssens et al.’s oversimplification that “the metric has become central in NIH’s grant management policy.”