brunoamaral on Nostr: Citation cartels help some mathematicians—and their universities—climb the ...

Citation cartels help some mathematicians—and their universities—climb the rankings

Cliques of mathematicians at institutions in China, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere have been artificially boosting their colleagues’ citation counts by churning out low-quality papers that repeatedly reference their work, according to an unpublished analysis seen by Science. As a result, the ...
https://www.science.org/content/article/citation-cartels-help-some-mathematicians-and-their-universities-climb-rankings