Editorial on Coercive Citations, Imaginary Authors and Citation Padding
Journal Title: NanoWorld Journal - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 4
Abstract
On January 2, 2018 coercive citations, imaginary authors and citation padding were brought to my attention with a Happy new year letter by Nature Briefing [1] citing the PLoS ONE paper [2] where padded citations are described as rampant in academia quoting a survey of more than 12,000 researchers, one in five reporting that editors tried to coerce them into adding citations to their papers to increase journals impact factor. This study also found that more than a third of respondents felt obliged to add authors who didn’t contribute anything, curiously with women 38% more likely to have done so than men. Nature with this action unwillingly confirms the validity of a recent thesis [3] that scientists competing individually for career progression and grant awards science-technology should be ranked by the number and the total impact factor of their SCI publications strictly as first authors falling into their 10 out of 10 deciles, regardless their number of citations and H index frequently accumulated in manuscripts with only apparently high impact factor since cosigned by a cohort of anonymous authors without history, part and art, as numerous as the one denounced by PLoS ONE [2] and Nature Briefing [1].
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Claudio Nicolini
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