Journalist Dalmeet Singh Chawla Describes the Market for Fake Citation...

If you’re a research scientist, your career, including your future earnings, your prestige, whether or not you get tenure, or what projects you work on, could all depend on how often an article you authored is cited in other publications.  That pressure creates an intense demand for citations, a demand that many shady internet companies are only too eager to satisfy, for a price.

According to a recent article in the journal Nature, researchers desperate to inflate the supposed impact of their work can now buy bogus citations for their research papers or even have completely fictitious articles churned out by so-called paper mills to boost their academic reputation.  The practice has become so widespread, that bogus papers may account for up to two percent of all articles published in scientific journals.

Dalmeet Singh Chawla is a freelance science reporter who focuses on scholarly publishing.  Chawla’s Nature article highlights some of the tactics used by unscrupulous providers of fake science news.  Dalmeet Singh Chawla spoke on the phone with Monday Buzz host Brian Standing to discuss his findings.

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