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How Much Citation Manipulation Is Acceptable?

Is citation manipulation a moral problem or an accounting problem?

  • By Phil Davis
  • May 30, 2017
  • 15 Comments

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.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Feb 8, 2011
  • 10 Comments

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.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • 5 Comments

Reverse Engineering JCR’s Self-Citation and Citation Stacking Thresholds

Now we know how suppression decisions are made, should metrics companies suppress titles at all or simply make the underlying data more transparent?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jun 5, 2017
  • 7 Comments

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.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Dec 11, 2018
  • 11 Comments

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.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Mar 9, 2017
  • 14 Comments

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.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Dec 12, 2012
  • 28 Comments

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.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Feb 2, 2012
  • 24 Comments

Does Journal Suppression Reduce Self-Citation?

Journal suppression is an effective tool for reducing high rates of self-citation, even years after a title is reintroduced.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jun 22, 2017
  • 3 Comments

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.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jul 21, 2016
  • 30 Comments

Should Editors Influence Journal Impact Factors?

Is it ethical for editors to alert authors of relevant in-journal articles?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Dec 14, 2009
  • 8 Comments

The Black Market for Facebook "Likes," and What It Means for Citations and Alt-Metrics

Purchasing artificial trust and reputation on the Internet has never been easier or cheaper. What does this mean for metrics-based evaluations?

  • By Phil Davis
  • May 18, 2012
  • 22 Comments

Mountains Out of Molehills, and the Search for a Retraction Index

A retraction study hits some familiar conceptual problems, and a proposed retraction index runs into a deeper issue.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Sep 1, 2011
  • 2 Comments

Impact Crater — Does DORA Need to Attack the Impact Factor to Reform How It Is Used in Academia?

A new declaration to improve research assessment practices shoots wide of the mark and reveals some misunderstandings on behalf of many of those involved.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 21, 2013
  • 26 Comments

Guest Post — The 10,000-watt Bulb: How Preprints Shine a Light on Misconduct

Michele Avissar-Whiting of Research Square discusses the value of preprints for uncovering unethical and fraudulent research behaviors early in the publication process.

  • By Michele Avissar-Whiting
  • Jun 2, 2021
  • 17 Comments
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