He seems to have kickstarted his citation count by reviews. This is sadly extremely common; a surprising amount of researchers nowadays don't have an actual dis

He seems to have kickstarted his citation count by reviews. This is sadly extremely common; a surprising amount of researchers nowadays don't have an actual discovery/novel experiment in their first 10 highest cited papers... He now still does those in reputable journals to relatively random, but en-vogue topics. Then he goes out and trades his name to less visible research (which is ok to do) to actual crap in 2nd to predatory tier journals in exchange for more citations (probably citing other works including him ;)). Generally possible everywhere, also done in the none-Google/Meta/... world of ML. Just look here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9764877/proceeding https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9764877/proceeding - just a random collection of crap.