How Much Citation Manipulation Is Acceptable?
Is citation manipulation a moral problem or an accounting problem?
Do We Need A Self-Citation Index?
[…] one paper, a way of building upon one’s prior work and the work of one’s colleagues. So why is self- citation getting such a bad rap these days? In a recently published paper appearing in the journal, Publications, Justin Flatt […]
Tipping the Scales: Is Impact Factor Suppression Biased Against Small Fields?
The suppression of three economic history journals reveals more about Clarivate’s methods than citation manipulation.
Gaming the Impact Factor Puts Journal In Time-out
Attempts to game a journal’s Impact Factor can result in being de-listed from the Journal Citation Report. Most offenders learn their lesson and return to normal citation behavior.
Skeletons In Their Closet: Clarivate Issues Editorial Concern But Takes No Further Action
A public allegation of citation manipulation among 5 journals deserves a public inquiry.
Reverse Engineering JCR’s Self-Citation and Citation Stacking Thresholds
[…] two journals recently involved in self-citation and citation cartel practices, underscored a fundamental principle of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) — that citation manipulation was acceptable practice just as long as it doesn’t reach a critical threshold. So, what is that threshold? The JCR uses […]
Gaming Google Scholar Citations, Made Simple and Easy
A new paper demonstrates how easy it is to game Google Scholar citations, and how the system resists correction.
Citation Cartel Or Editor Gone Rogue?
How much can a single editor distort the citation record? Investigation documents rogue editor’s coercion of authors to cite his journal, papers.
Citation Cartel Journals Denied 2011 Impact Factor
Fifty-one journals are suspended from the Journal Citation Report for “anomalous citation patterns.” Whether or not you agree with the impact factor, sanctions help maintain the integrity of the scientific publishing enterprise for everyone.
Well, Blow Me Down — A Tale of Spinach, Citations, Nutrition, Epistemology, and Cognitive Ease
More and more studies are emerging showing how misdirecting and expanding citations can lead to long-term misconceptions and mistaken belief systems in the sciences.
Online Access and Citations — A Spurious Relationship, Economists Say
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.
How to Manipulate a Citation Histogram
Citation indexes need to provide standardized citation histograms for editors and publishers. Without them, it is unlikely that they will be widely adopted. At worse, it will encourage the production of histograms that selectively highlight or obscure the data.
When Journal Editors Coerce Authors to Self-Cite
Editors of business journals strategically coerce authors to increase citation rates, a new study in Science reports.
Oh, What A Tangled Web! Citation Network Underscores Editorial Conflicts of Interest
[…] of Science show a curious level of self-dealings, with high levels of citations directed to, and from, other ASP journals. Citation network contributing to the 2017 Impact Factors of 8 journals published by American Scientific Publishers (colored). All other journals […]
Optical Illusions — Shifting to Citation Distributions Only Makes It Easier to Fool the Eye
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.