Taking this as a challenge. Hold my beer.
To give a sense of the scale of citation market - how many people are paying brokers to get their shabby papers cited (& to elevate their academic metrics) - here's a review paper where the last *4½ pages* are a stream of absurd, irrelevant references. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
By 'legitimate community expectations', Chris Bishop means 'Winston Peters' arm up his butt'.
Have to love how "we in the media decided to stop talking about it" became "America moved on".
A Hungarian PhD student is invited to collaborate on papers whilst at a conference, then it all gets out of hand. An impressive article by Gábor Stöckert building on my recent investigation into an Iraqi papermill. telex.hu/komplex/2024...
Az Óbudai Egyetem két kutatója is belekeveredett egy iraki „papírgyár” cikkeibe. Az ilyen vállalkozásoktól hivatkozásokat vagy szerzőséget lehet vásárolni, és alapjaiban kezdik ki a tudományos publiká...
"Are these 'voters who want more specifics' in the room with us right now?"
Someone in the 'metaheuristic algorithms' field of fiddle-faddle says the quiet part out loud: "The gravy train need never stop."
Editorial Droit du Seigneur.
