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!
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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.