'However, we found through a chance encounter that some unscrupulous actors have added extra references, invisible in the text but present in the articles' metadata, when they submitted the articles to scientific databases. The result? Citation counts for certain researchers or journals have skyrocketed, even though these references were not cited by the authors in their articles.'
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-scientific-fraud-uncovering.html
Thiago Carvalho /
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