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by kken 4543 days ago
>Basing opinion on citation index is like saying if this person is not widely cited he is likely to be wrong.

No, it does not say that.

Having published for 40 years with only very few citations means that his works were either irrelevant or only found extremely limited circulation. Both makes the claims less trustworthy. However, on the other hand, Perelman...
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auntienomen 4543 days ago
Perelman wasn't an academic nobody. He was a Miller fellow at Berkeley, and had visiting positions at the Courant Institute and Stony Brook. When he left the academic system, he had job offers at Princeton and Stanford.

TL;DR People who work on geometry knew Perelman pretty well.

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VladRussian2 4543 days ago
>His citation index is not very convincing either http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CU2sU8YAAAAJ

>Having published for 40 years with only very few citations means that his works were either irrelevant or only found extremely limited circulation. Both makes the claims less trustworthy.

while i don't know anything about this guy, beside one in 1976, the Google citation index seems to show only ones in current century.

Quick search from other link http://www.ecosecretariat.org/ftproot/High_Level_Meetings/Su... :

"He contributed in the development of mathematics, for which he was awarded to the prize of the Department of physics-mathematical sciences of AS [Academy of Sciences] of USSR in 1990. He published 200 scientific papers and monographs."

I'm sure that this guy did have at least some citations between 1976 and 2000 :)

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