Can anyone familiar with European Commission procedure please explain how to support the Wikipedia-associated proposals in [1] based on the statistics in [2] please? Very recent publications such as [3] in Nature along with what appears to be a relatively sudden groundswell of frankness and support e.g. [4] suggests to me that the time is right to get out in front of these proposals.
[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Nicholas5/publication/275349828_E...
[2] http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~xshuai/papers/jcdl240-shuai.pdf
[3] http://www.nature.com/news/fewer-numbers-better-science-1.20858
[4] http://blog.scielo.org/en/2016/10/14/is-it-possible-to-normalize-citation-me...