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Tag: citation

Intelligent Design Peer review

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!

Posted on October 12, 2019October 12, 2019 Author News Comment(0)
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.

Posted on October 1, 2019October 1, 2019 Author News Comment(1)

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