Manipulating journal impact factors
Posted: February 28, 2012 Filed under: ethics, incentives, research 3 Comments »Via several folks on Facebook (e.g., Marcel Bogers, Der Chao Chen) – here’s a short blog post on how journals are manipulating their impact factors: coerced citations and manipulated impact factors – dirty tricks of academic journals.
Here’s the Science piece that the above blog post refers to: Coercive citation in academic publishing. Here’s the data (pdf).
It is very unsettling to be asked to cite work from the same journal that does not directly apply – especially when the editor is a co-author on the proposed citation…
I’ve had this happen numerous times.
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