Some scientific collaborations put thousands of people on every paper, publish around 100 papers a year, and cite at least 10 of their own papers in each one.

Some scientific collaborations put thousands of people on every paper, publish around 100 papers a year, and cite at least 10 of their own papers in each one. To some, that might be "a fraudulent citation ring". To others it's just business as usual. Of course a lot of academia has caught on to the ruse, but the mitigations are pretty ugly: some funding agencies and universities just stopped counting papers from large experiments as valid scientific contributions.