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Can we measure the impact of a database?

Can we measure the impact of a database?

In disseminating scientific and statistical data, on-line databases have almost completely replaced traditional paper-based media such as journals and reference works. Given this, can we measure the impact of a database in the same way that we measure an author's or journal's impact? To do this, we need somehow to …