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> So how does the fraud work? Researcher wants to boost his citation count so they can get more funding, respect, etc. They ask their friends to cite their pape
by resoluteteeth 2y ago
> So how does the fraud work? Researcher wants to boost his citation count so they can get more funding, respect, etc. They ask their friends to cite their paper in a metadata-only reference in their other papers, even though the papers didn't really reference anything from the original paper.
This is probably the publisher's doing rather than the author of the paper.
- bigiain 2y agoDo the publishers actually _do_ anything? (Apart from invoicing academic institutions and demanding unpaid work from peer reviewers, of course). Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to find they demanded authors create/submit the metadata with the references in it, and that it never gets shown to the unpaid peer reviewers, and is never checked by anybody.