(scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org): The length of a paper’s reference list is also associated with the number of citations that a paper receives, writes Zoe Corbyn in this week’s Nature News, reporting on a study of more than 50,000 papers published in the journal Science. This association, writes Corbyn, provides evidence of widespread corruption in the citation process by involving a mutual “I’ll cite your paper if you cite mine” tactic designed to benefit both the citing and cited authors.
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