[GOAL] Online Academic Abuses and the Power of Openness: Naming Shaming

2012-04-10 Thread Stevan Harnad
Self-citation in order to enhance a journal's impact factor is certainly an abuse, well worth controlling and exposing. Self-citation to enhance an individual's citation count is futile. Personal citation statistics, used in performance evaluation, can easily be processed to cull out

[GOAL] Online Academic Abuses and the Power of Openness: Naming Shaming

2012-04-10 Thread Stevan Harnad
Self-citation in order to enhance a journal's impact factor is certainly an abuse, well worth controlling and exposing. Self-citation to enhance an individual's citation count is futile. Personal citation statistics, used in performance evaluation, can easily be processed to cull out