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Watch out for cheats in citation game

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  • Mario Biagioli

    (Mario Biagioli is a professor of law and of science and technology studies at the University of California, Davis.)

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The focus on impact of published research has created new opportunities for misconduct and fraudsters, says Mario Biagioli.

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  • Mario Biagioli, 2016. "Watch out for cheats in citation game," Nature, Nature, vol. 535(7611), pages 201-201, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:535:y:2016:i:7611:d:10.1038_535201a
    DOI: 10.1038/535201a
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    3. Teresa Elizabeth Stone & Jane Conway, 2017. "Editorial: Self‐plagiarism prevention and management at Nursing & Health Sciences," Nursing & Health Sciences, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 19(1), pages 1-4, March.
    4. Seeber, Marco & Cattaneo, Mattia & Meoli, Michele & Malighetti, Paolo, 2019. "Self-citations as strategic response to the use of metrics for career decisions," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 48(2), pages 478-491.
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    6. Siler, Kyle & Larivière, Vincent, 2022. "Who games metrics and rankings? Institutional niches and journal impact factor inflation," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 51(10).
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    8. Jonathan D. Wren & Constantin Georgescu, 2022. "Detecting anomalous referencing patterns in PubMed papers suggestive of author-centric reference list manipulation," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 127(10), pages 5753-5771, October.
    9. Lucas Jódar & Elena De la Poza, 2020. "How and Why the Metric Management Model Is Unsustainable: The Case of Spanish Universities from 2005 to 2020," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(15), pages 1-19, July.
    10. Kuckertz, Andreas & Scheu, Maximilian & Davidsson, Per, 2023. "Chasing mythical creatures – A (not-so-sympathetic) critique of entrepreneurship's obsession with unicorn startups," Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Elsevier, vol. 19(C).
    11. Timur Gareev & Irina Peker, 2023. "Quantity versus quality in publication activity: knowledge production at the regional level," Papers 2311.08830, arXiv.org.
    12. Groen-Xu, Moqi & Bös, Gregor & Teixeira, Pedro A. & Voigt, Thomas & Knapp, Bernhard, 2023. "Short-term incentives of research evaluations: Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 52(6).
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    14. Abramo, Giovanni & D'Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea & Grilli, Leonardo, 2021. "The effects of citation-based research evaluation schemes on self-citation behavior," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 15(4).
    15. Edré Moreira & Wagner Meira & Marcos André Gonçalves & Alberto H. F. Laender, 2023. "The rise of hyperprolific authors in computer science: characterization and implications," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 128(5), pages 2945-2974, May.
    16. Zhiya Zuo & Kang Zhao, 2021. "Understanding and predicting future research impact at different career stages—A social network perspective," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 72(4), pages 454-472, April.
    17. Lu Liu & Benjamin F. Jones & Brian Uzzi & Dashun Wang, 2023. "Data, measurement and empirical methods in the science of science," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 7(7), pages 1046-1058, July.
    18. Xueying Liu & Haoran Zhu, 2023. "Linguistic positivity in soft and hard disciplines: temporal dynamics, disciplinary variation, and the relationship with research impact," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 128(5), pages 3107-3127, May.

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