Teixeira da Silva, J. A. and Vickers, N. J. and Nazarovets, S. (2023) From citation metrics to citation ethics: Critical examination of a highly-cited 2017 moth pheromone paper Scientometrics. ISSN 1588-2861
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In this letter, we focus on a very curious and bibliometrically important case of a 2017 moth pheromone paper published in Cell Press’ Current Biology that has already accumulated over 1600 Google Scholar-based citations within the past 4 years (i.e., since 2020) to appreciate whether all those citations are valid, i.e., within thematic scope, or whether a portion of those citations might be invalid, and which we colloquially refer to herein as “unwanted citations”. Our investigation assessed Scopus-based data (1088 citations on 10 August 2023). In addition to creating a SciVal thematic profile, which indicated a wide diversity of topics of papers citing the 2017 paper, a manual screen revealed only one paper that was directly thematically relevant to the topic of insect reproductive biology. The remaining > 99% of citations, or “unwanted citations”, are invalid. To reflect a valid state of scientific truthfulness, those papers should be corrected to reflect that citation abuse has taken place.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | academic publishing; authors’ rights; citations for sale; citation manipulation; Google Scholar; paper mills |
| Subjects: | Це архівна тематика Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Статті у наукометричних базах > Scopus Це архівна тематика Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Статті у наукометричних базах > Web of Science |
| Divisions: | Це архівні підрозділи Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Бібліотека |
| Depositing User: | Сергій Андрійович Назаровець |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Dec 2023 12:55 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Dec 2023 12:08 |
| URI: | https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/47960 |
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