New study: "We report evidence of an undocumented method to manipulate citation counts involving 'sneaked' references… We show that extra undue references are actually sneaked in at Digital Object Identifier (#DOI) registration time, resulting in artificially inflated citation counts."
https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.24896
#Citations #Metrics #Misconduct
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