Extracting the key definition: These additional references were only in the metadata, distorting citation counts and giving certain authors an unfair adv

Extracting the key definition: These additional references were only in the metadata, distorting citation counts and giving certain authors an unfair advantage. Papers with metadata that doesn't match the contents of the paper. The article notes that Google Scholar is unaffected, as it extracts citations from the paper itself by parsing the text of the printed bibliography.