How Much Citation Manipulation Is Acceptable?
Is citation manipulation a moral problem or an accounting problem?
Is citation manipulation a moral problem or an accounting problem?
A study by two respected economists suggests it may be time to admit that we made a mistake attributing a citation advantage to open access articles.
The suppression of three economic history journals reveals more about Clarivate’s methods than citation manipulation.
Now we know how suppression decisions are made, should metrics companies suppress titles at all or simply make the underlying data more transparent?
A public allegation of citation manipulation among 5 journals deserves a public inquiry.
How much can a single editor distort the citation record? Investigation documents rogue editor’s coercion of authors to cite his journal, papers.
A new paper demonstrates how easy it is to game Google Scholar citations, and how the system resists correction.
Editors of business journals strategically coerce authors to increase citation rates, a new study in Science reports.
Journal suppression is an effective tool for reducing high rates of self-citation, even years after a title is reintroduced.
A proposal to substitute graphs of citation distributions for impact factors introduces many problems the authors don’t seem to have fully grasped, including unintentionally bolstering the importance of the very metric they seek to diminish.
Is it ethical for editors to alert authors of relevant in-journal articles?
Purchasing artificial trust and reputation on the Internet has never been easier or cheaper. What does this mean for metrics-based evaluations?
A retraction study hits some familiar conceptual problems, and a proposed retraction index runs into a deeper issue.
A new declaration to improve research assessment practices shoots wide of the mark and reveals some misunderstandings on behalf of many of those involved.
Michele Avissar-Whiting of Research Square discusses the value of preprints for uncovering unethical and fraudulent research behaviors early in the publication process.