2009/09/12 by Bruce Knuteson, Knuteson, Bruce
Decision Sciences · #Data Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration #Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0909.2361
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Program review in the physical sciences may benefit from a framework within which to quantitatively discuss the scientific merit of a proposed theoretical program of research, and to assess the scientific merit of a particular theoretical paper. This article interprets a previously proposed measure of experimental scientific merit in a manner appropriate for quantifying the scientific merit of completed and proposed theoretical research. With this interpretation, the resulting figure of merit represents a proposal for a quantitative measure of total scientific merit.