"Here, we compile a dataset of ~1.6 million profiles on Google Scholar to examine instances of citation fraud on the platform. (...) Intrigued by a citation-boosting service that we unravelled during our investigation, we contacted the service while undercover as a fictional author, and managed to purchase 50 citations."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607
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