Coercive citation
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coercive-citation-282-4654063
title:
Coercive citation
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Coercive citation is an academic publishing practice in which an editor of a scientific or academic journal forces an author to add spurious citations to an article before the journal will agree to publish it. This is done to inflate the journal's impact factor, thus artificially boosting the journal's scientific reputation. Manipulation of impact factors and self-citation has long been frowned upon in academic circles; however, the results of a 2012 survey indicate that about 20% of academics w
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Academic publishing practice
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercive_citation
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date modified:
2024-01-31T19:47:26Z
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