Matt Hodgkinson · @mattjhodgkinson
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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.

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

#naturenews #bibliometrics #referencing #selfcitation #coercivecitation #PublicationEthics

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François Renaville 🇺🇦🇪🇺 · @fr
237 followers · 271 posts · Server mastodon.top

Prolific researcher has two dozen papers retracted

👉 An autism researcher lost two dozen papers to 8 years after the publisher was made aware of potentially troubling editorial practices. cited undisclosed conflicts of interest, duplicated methodology and a “compromised” process as reasons for the .

spectrumnews.org/news/prolific

#autism #retraction #elsevier #PeerReview #retractions #peerreviewing #research #science #ethics #publishing #selfcitation #metrics

Last updated 2 years ago