“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
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Prolific #autism researcher has two dozen papers retracted
👉 An autism researcher lost two dozen papers to #retraction 8 years after the publisher was made aware of potentially troubling editorial practices. #Elsevier cited undisclosed conflicts of interest, duplicated methodology and a “compromised” #peerreview process as reasons for the #retractions.
https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/prolific-autism-researcher-has-two-dozen-papers-retracted/
#peerreviewing #research #science #ethics #Publishing #selfcitation #metrics
#autism #retraction #elsevier #PeerReview #retractions #peerreviewing #research #science #ethics #publishing #selfcitation #metrics