Some scholars are inflating their reference counts by sneaking them into metadata
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/07/hacking-scientific-citations.html
oh, DOI!
"When registering a new publication and its references with Crossref, a publisher may sneak extra undue references in the metadata sent in addition to the ones originally present."
https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.24896
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