#citationbias — Public Fediverse posts

@junesim63 The wood wide web, not as wide as it seems : this idea of interconnecting trees, based on Suzanne Simard's papers and then largely publicised by Peter Wohlleben in his book "The Hidden Life of Trees", is largely based on #CitationBias towards positive effects , as this very nice review paper here shows : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-01986-1
#ForestEcology #Forests

One of the strongest objections to #APCs is that they exclude large numbers of scholarly authors on economic grounds, unrelated to the merit of their work. (See e.g. the #BOAI20, recommendation 3.)

A new study argues that this exclusion shows up in #CitationBias against authors from the #GlobalSouth. The bias itself is well-documented and the authors argue that the rise of APCs is one factor in explaining it.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665944124000142

#ScholComm

New study: "While #LLMs can aid in citation generation, they may also amplify existing biases, such as the #MatthewEffect, and introduce new ones, potentially skewing scientific knowledge dissemination."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15739

#AI #Citations, #CitationBias

@ct_bergstrom
Citation stacking, like 50 papers cited in the first paragraph, can also be a sign of citation manipulation.

When you see [1-50], it's possible the authors may be boosting their own work or that of connected researchers/journals, or they may be part of a citation ring, or - in a published article - they may have been subject to coercive citation by a reviewer or editor.
#PublicationEthics #Bibliometrics #Citations #CitationScience #CitationBias #ScholComm