#coercivecitation — Public Fediverse posts
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The RW Daily: #Iraqiuniversity, the University of Technology in Baghdad , forcing students to cite its journals to graduate. And primatologist settles lawsuit following contract mishandling.
#Coercivecitation is widespread in academia and can help boost the rankings of publications, institutions and individual researchers. The practice is considered unethical and may trigger heavy penalties.
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“If we want to reduce these distorting practices, then we have to take away the incentive to do them. It’s a systemic corruption of the process.”
I spoke to Dalmeet Singh Chawla about coercive citation.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01532-w
#PublicationEthics #CoerciveCitation #SelfCitation #Referencing #Bibliometrics #NatureNews