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You all remember Campbell’s law: when a metric becomes a target, people do stupid shit.
Citation metrics are the tail wagging the academic dog. Today I got a spam email for a new service that, as best as I can tell, will for a price spam your colleagues for you in hopes that they will cite your papers.