# There should be a badge for citations

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/there-should-be-a-badge-for-citations/39440
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2016年二月12日 00:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/there-should-be-a-badge-for-citations/39440 "2016-02-12T00:00:56Z")
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### Author: ![Talin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/talin/32/121928_2.png) [@Talin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Talin)
#### Post date: [2016年二月12日 00:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/there-should-be-a-badge-for-citations/39440/1 "2016-02-12T00:00:56Z")

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One of our target audiences is scientists (cancer researchers) and as you probably know scientists are all about citations - how many times did my paper get referenced by other published papers?

I looked at the list of possible badges, and I didn’t see a badge for how many times someone has been quoted or reshared. There’s a badge for quoting someone, but not for being quoted.

It seems to me that the number of times you are quoted would be a significant metric of community involvement, and possibly of post quality (although admittedly you can get quoted frequently for being controversial).

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2016年二月12日 00:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/there-should-be-a-badge-for-citations/39440/2 "2016-02-12T00:10:14Z")

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> [@Talin](#):
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> There’s a badge for quoting someone, but not for being quoted.

Sure, I think a badge for this is a good idea. We try to implement one new badge in each release per #releases.