citation – Uncommon Descent

Citation cartels?

To understand how citation cartels come to exist, it’s helpful to recall Goodhart’s Law, as explained by Robert J. Marks: Why it’s so hard to reform peer review: Reformers are battling numerical laws that govern how incentives work. Know your enemy!

Peer review

Findings: Two-thirds of researchers claim pressure to cite superfluous work

It was an online poll which drew in 4300 Nature readers, and the proportion claiming such influence was higher than in previous surveys.

Seversky Racism is a human problem so it exists in the sciences, the arts, religion, all areas of human activity. We... – At The Scientist: Stuff about Darwinian...
mike1962 Seversky: "There is no point other than, perhaps, to make those diners feel a little less secure while dining out,... – Michael Egnor: Darwinism as Hegel’s philosophy...
mike1962 Do algorithms create fundamentally different goals for "themselves?" (Don't bore me with templates, that's not fundamental.) – SwiftKey co-founder: Computers can’t just “evolve”...
Mac McTavish ET, making it the law and making it fully accepted are not the same thing. It is against the law... – Is the USA going over the...
ET Let them fire you for being gay: The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that workers cannot be fired for being... – Is the USA going over the...
john_a_designer For over six months “BLM activists claim that Louisville police broke into Taylor’s apartment without warning. They claimed cops used... – Michael Egnor: Darwinism as Hegel’s philosophy...
Mac McTavish KF Once war was declared on family, lawful policing, courts, history etc, it became patent what we are dealing with... – Is the USA going over the...
Truthfreedom The Utter Failure of Materialism as a Worldview The ideology of scientific materialism became dominant in academia during the 20th... – Were the Nazis on the Right...
Truthfreedom 33 Kairosfocus The rise of Atheistical and hyperskeptical notions to dominance has wreaked havoc in uncountable ways, this is one... – Were the Nazis on the Right...
Truthfreedom 785 Kairosfocus You (Seversky) should be ashamed of yourself. Don't hold your breath. Seversky is handling the utter failure of... – Is the USA going over the...
Upright BiPed . Seversky at #10 How would you characterize the “Darwinian mindset”? Did I not make that clear in my post?... – Michael Egnor: Darwinism as Hegel’s philosophy...
Truthfreedom Seversky When are you going to condemn Darwin's disgusting white supremacism? Let me remind you hypocrite creature that your amoral... – Michael Egnor: Darwinism as Hegel’s philosophy...
Truthfreedom 23 Kairosfocus Seversky, you are enabling and excusing riot and SA bully-boy stormtrooper behaviour. Seversky is a good little marxist. – Michael Egnor: Darwinism as Hegel’s philosophy...
bornagain77 Moreover, as was alluded to in the preceding articles, the ‘plantonic perfection’ of a flat universe just so happens to... – Mathematicians debate the war on math
bornagain77 Ever since modern science was born in medieval Christian Europe, science has had a history of looking for ‘platonic perfection’,... – Mathematicians debate the war on math
kairosfocus Seversky, you are enabling and excusing riot and SA bully-boy stormtrooper behaviour. That tells us all we need to know.... – Michael Egnor: Darwinism as Hegel’s philosophy...
kairosfocus Q, they will fail but will do incalculable damage in the US, while opening doors for geostrategic vultures. The world... – Were the Nazis on the Right...
kairosfocus Seversky, what rock have you been under these past months? There is always need for sound reformation, which is the... – Is the USA going over the...
johnnyb AaronS1978 - MM did an article here: https://mindmatters.ai/2020/09/can-ai-really-evolve-into-superintelligence-all-by-itself/ – Eric Holloway: Evolution and artificial intelligence...
ET seversky: At least those diners were not gunned down in a hail of police bullets in their own home like... – Michael Egnor: Darwinism as Hegel’s philosophy...
ET From the first wikipedia biosemiotics reference: Biosemiotics: a new understanding of life Biosemiotics is the idea that life is based... – The smog is beginning to clear...