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Which is why you should ask people to exclude self citations when reporting h-index. First of all Google scholar should fix this.
by vinni2 2y ago
Which is why you should ask people to exclude self citations when reporting h-index. First of all Google scholar should fix this.
- riedel 2y agoRelying just on h-index is bad in the first places. I habe colleagues in experimental physics who are on papers with tens of coauthors, working only on a small bit that enabled multiple experiments and have an amazing hindex. you cannot compare that to a theoretically working niche field. In the end it is about wrong incentives in science. See also this article on rising self citations [0] . Having said that h-index is a good KPI to track for myself. [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00090-z https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00090-z
- staunton 2y agoI know lots of people who are authors on papers they've never even looked at. (They implicitly agreed to be authors and know that there's some such papers, they just didn't even read the tiles)
- Heidaradar 2y agoyou could get a friend/family member to do the same thing though (they cite each other thousands of times)
- SeanLuke 2y agoCitation rings are a major issue, particularly in AI conferences.
- checkyoursudo 2y agoBut also particularly in a lot of fields. One problem in niche areas is that sometimes there are only so many people working on a particular problem and only so many different papers/authors to cite.
- SeanLuke 2y agoI'm not talking about niche areas. I'm talking about genuine illicit citation rings.
- falcor84 2y agoJust out of curiosity, do AI practitioners utilize AI to optimize citations? If so, I'd expect papers detailing how to go about it to get massive citations. The appropriate venue might be the Journal of Data Science, Informetrics, and Citation Studies [0], and I didn't see any such articles there yet. [0] https://jcitation.org/index.php/jdscics https://jcitation.org/index.php/jdscics