Coercive Citation In Academic Publishing

By following the recently published paper in science titled coercive citation in academic publishing, in this paper, we aim to discuss the demand of some journals that request authors to cite recently published papers in that journal to increase the impact factor of. Coercive citation is a malpractice in academic publishing wherein an editor of a scientific journal approached and coerced authors to add unwarranted citations to articles before the editor will agree to publish it.

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Coercive citation in academic publishing. According to a forum discussion by the committee on publication ethics (cope), coercive citation can “range from a suggestion of the editors to the authors to look whether the journal has published papers that are relevant to the current paper and cite them so that readers can better follow the line of research as published in that journal. Coercive citation in academic publishing a study was released in science magazine on february 3rd: Coercive citation in academic publishing.

Allen w wilhite college of business administration, university of alabama in huntsville, huntsville, al 35899, usa. Sebastiaan mathôt sat 04 february 2012 the prestige of an academic journal is determined largely by its impact factor. Coercive citation in academic publishing.

This is a rather innocent form. They suggest that such practices are motivated by intent to increase measured journal impact factors. For the current study a coercive citation is considered to occur when an editor requires that the manuscript’s author(s) include unnecessarily, “moderately relevant” (or “rather unessential for the submitted paper’s understanding”) reference(s) to the editor’s publication(s) [11, 17].

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Adshelp[at]cfa.harvard.edu the ads is operated by the smithsonian astrophysical observatory under nasa cooperative agreement nnx16ac86a Previous study only investigated coercive citation from editors to enrich journals’ citations. Add citations to their journal.

10.1126/science.1212540 this pdf file includes materials and methods tables s1 to s12 references The authors define coercive citations as requests that give no indication the manuscript is lacking in attribution but instead simply guide authors to add citations to the editor's journal. The authors analyzed 6672 responses from a survey sent to researchers in economics, sociology, psychology, and multiple business disciplines (marketing, management, finance, information systems, and accounting).

Previous study only investigated coercive citation from editors to enrich journals’ citations. Coercive citation in academic publishing investigated 2 february 2012 uahuntsville college of business professors, dr. Uahuntsville college of business professors, dr.

Fong *to whom correspondence should be addressed. Coercive citation is a malpractice in academic publishing wherein an editor of a scientific journal approached and coerced authors to add unwarranted citations to articles before the editor will agree to publish it. Coercive citation in academic publishing.

To give you a rough idea: For example, in one academic study, roughly 20% of survey respondents have experienced coercive citation (when editors direct authors to add citations to articles from the editors’ journals even though there is no indicated lack of attribution and no specific articles or. Authors or journals that have been found to engage in citation boosting and other coercive or manipulative actions to fortify abms, jbms or citation rates should be punished, either by publishing bans, blacklisting, or removal from editorial boards, or delisting from indexing services or databases, since such actions can constitute academic.

This is a somewhat odd measure of how often, on average, a paper in a journal is cited in other academic publications. Coercive citation is a malpractice in academic publishing wherein an editor of a scientific journal approached and coerced authors to add unwarranted citations to. Wilhite and fong mentioned that in.

One side effect of impact factors is the incentive they create for editors to coerce authors to add citations to their journal. Cite my journal or else: Wilhitea@uah.edu published 3 february 2012, science 335, 542 (2012) doi:

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