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.

William J Murray Doubter @6 said: Interesting given the pack of lies about vote fraud promulgated by the right after the last election.... – Peter Boghossian on the Woke and...
William J Murray There's no such thing as "artificial intelligence." The phrase is a complete misnomer. – Soon there will be computers that...
William J Murray 1. The building of the simplest molecular machine requires contaminate-free environments, with distinct internal conditions, made by applying separated, purified... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
mohammadnursyamsu There are 2 disputes. Creationist philosophy vs materialist philosophy Intelligent design vs evolution theory Creationist philosophy wins from materialist philosophy,... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
Upright BiPed . Seversky, You wrote in to show your support for JVL in his time of need. Since you wrote specifically... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
bornagain77 In Bob's cited link we find, Why is there something rather tan nothing Excerpt: Quantum mechanics tells us that there... – Stephen Hawking was Sometimes Embarrassingly Stupid
martin_r a quote from the original article: "The existing theory had been that this connection first evolved in terrestrial creatures and,... – Would you believe… that the brain-eye...
William J Murray Interesting article, and it makes some good points, but it is riddled with ideological assumptions, mistakes and bad logic. – At Scientific American: Why we live...
Bob O'H Quantum mechanics is a long way outside my bailiwick (something I share, apparently, with Stephen Hawking but not with Barry)... – Stephen Hawking was Sometimes Embarrassingly Stupid
kairosfocus Sev, 444 [& attn, JVL]: IDCists set a much lower bar for evidence of design than they do for evidence... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
martin_r in my previous post i mentioned camcorders.... i think that most of you heard of image stabilization, steady-cam systems and... – Would you believe… that the brain-eye...
martin_r Brain-Eye Connection i was always wondering, how Darwinists (natural science graduates) imagine the evolution of brain-eye communication protocol and data... – Would you believe… that the brain-eye...
Karen McMannus In Hawkings A Brief History of Time, Hawkings wrote that the universe, "Just Is." I wrote him and asked, "why... – Stephen Hawking was Sometimes Embarrassingly Stupid
polistra This also fits the complex-first template. The ipsilateral plus bilateral arrangement requires a lot of coordination and trickery in the... – Would you believe… that the brain-eye...
martin_r News> Isn’t this becoming a trend? just yesterday i posted the same here, and also the day before yesterday... and... – Would you believe… that the brain-eye...
Pearlman per Pearlman YeC: considering the one year that was the 1656 anno-mundi impacts year, aka global flood by Noach accounts... – Günter Bechly: Paper says Cambrian Explosion...
Mung Upright Biped, you need to learn how to lie. – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
Mung No. My brain appeared circa 1959. – Would you believe… that the brain-eye...
Karen McMannus Speckle – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
Silver Asiatic Seversky The phenomenon or entity has not been observed to result from natural processes and it resembles what human beings... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
Silver Asiatic Seversky What I do not accept – and neither, apparently, do many of those working in this field – is... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...