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'.
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...
Someone in the 'metaheuristic algorithms' field of fiddle-faddle says the quiet part out loud: "The gravy train need never stop."
Authors #1: "we suspected that we have sufferred from the figure plagiarization by the latter published paper." pubpeer.com/publications...pubpeer.com/publications...
An author responds: pubpeer.com/publications... "Please revise your basic scientific knowledge in the field of biology." "You have commented on our publications several times due to a personnel conflict with one of the authors who worked with you at the same institution".
I only now encountered this 2022 preprint from Ehsan Kianfar: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1... 2/3 of it are the 302 references. 20% of those are irrelevant, gratuitous self-citations but the rest are a snapshot of what fake journals & papers the citation brokers were paying authors to cite.
