Category Archives: citation manipulation
Cite yourself excessively, apologize, then republish the papers with fewer self-citations. Journal says: Fine.
A journal has allowed a geophysicist who cited his own work hundreds of times across 10 papers to retract the articles and republish them with a fraction of the self-citations. From 2017 to 2019, Yangkang Chen published some of the papers in Geophysical Journal International, an Oxford University Press title, while he was a postdoc … Continue reading Cite yourself excessively, apologize, then republish the papers with fewer self-citations. Journal says: Fine.
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“Stunned, very confused”: Two more journals push back against Impact Factor suppression
At least two more journals are fighting decisions by Clarivate — the company behind the Impact Factor — to suppress them from the 2019 list of journals assigned a metric that many rightly or wrongly consider career-making. In a letter to the editorial board of Body Image, an Elsevier journal that was one of 33 … Continue reading “Stunned, very confused”: Two more journals push back against Impact Factor suppression
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Major indexing service sounds alarm on self-citations by nearly 50 journals
More than 70% of the citations in one journal were to other papers in that journal. Another published a single paper that cited nearly 200 other articles in the journal. Now, Clarivate, the company behind the Impact Factor, is taking steps to fight such behavior, suppressing 33 journals from their indexing service and subjecting 15 … Continue reading Major indexing service sounds alarm on self-citations by nearly 50 journals
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Journal retracted at least 17 papers for self-citation, 14 with same first author
A medical journal in Italy has retracted at least 17 papers by researchers in that country who appear to have been caught in a citation scam. The journal says it also fired three editorial board members for “misconduct” in the matter. The retractions, from Acta Medica Mediterranea, occurred in 2017 and 2018, but we’re just … Continue reading Journal retracted at least 17 papers for self-citation, 14 with same first author
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The case of the reviewer who said cite me or I won’t recommend acceptance of your work
Some peer reviews evidently are tempted to ask authors to cite their work, perhaps as a way to boost their own influence. But a recent episode at the journal Bioinformatics suggests, the risk can outweigh the reward. We’ll let the editors — Jonathan Wren, Alfonso Valencia and Janet Kelso — tell the tale, which they … Continue reading The case of the reviewer who said cite me or I won’t recommend acceptance of your work
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Journal reverses retractions, says apparent citation manipulation was “an innocent and honest mistake”
A journal that retracted three papers earlier this year because of concerns that one of the authors had asked conference presenters to cite them has republished the articles, saying that it has “inconclusive evidence of improper behavior.” In February, we reported that the Journal of Vibroengineering had retracted three papers by Magd Abdel Wahab, of … Continue reading Journal reverses retractions, says apparent citation manipulation was “an innocent and honest mistake”
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Can soil science research dig itself out from a citation stacking scandal?
Last year, the soil science community was rocked by reports that an editor, Artemi Cerdà, was accused of citation stacking — asking authors to cite particular papers — boosting his profile, and that of journals where he worked. (Cerdà has denied the allegations.) The case had some major fallout: Cerdà resigned from two journals and … Continue reading Can soil science research dig itself out from a citation stacking scandal?
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Three papers retracted… for being cited too frequently
An engineering journal has retracted three 2016 papers. The reason: They had been cited too often. Although the reason for the retractions may sound odd, the editor, Minvydas Ragulskis, told Retraction Watch he was concerned an author had engaged in citation manipulation. Specifically, Ragulskis explained that the majority of the citations came from papers at […]
One way to boost your uni’s ranking: Ask faculty to cite each other
Readers who follow scientific publishing will know the term “citation stacking” — as a profile-boosting technique, we’ve seen journals ask authors to cite them, and individual scientists work together to cite each other, forming “citation cartels.” And now, we’ve seen a university do it. A university in Malaysia has instructed its engineering faculty to cite […]
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Another editor resigns from journal hit by citation scandal
Another editor has resigned from an earth science journal following allegations over citation irregularities, which also took down its editor-in-chief. According to Land Degradation & Development website, editor Paolo Pereira has stepped down from the journal. The journal does not say why, and a spokesperson for publisher Wiley did not elaborate. The website has included […]
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