Seems like this is a case of "whatever you measure will be gamed": counting citations is an important part of how academics are evaluated at work, so we get fla

Seems like this is a case of "whatever you measure will be gamed": counting citations is an important part of how academics are evaluated at work, so we get flag-planting behavior to maximize that metric with minimal effort. There's a similar issue in journal publishing: counting "published works" without regard for where leads to journals that will publish literally anything for cash.