And SEO spammers will add themselves, too! This is not a new problem. On Thursday, 5 February 2015, Kerry Raymond <kerry.raym...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do I understand this correctly? That Wikipedia articles that cite > academic publications will be included in citation count now (at least for > altmetrics). While that’s great recognition for Wikipedia as a corpus of > scholarly work, does that mean Wikipedia will be overrun with academic > authors adding citations to their academic papers in any Wikipedia article > they can get away with in order to improve their citation counts for their > CVs? > > > > I note that generally we can spot self-citation because the two papers > will have an author name in common, but with the ability to edit Wikipedia > anonymously and pseudonymously means that we cannot spot self-citation. > > > > While judging research purely on citation counts is a deeply flawed method > of assessment, nonetheless it is a reality and the pressure on folks to > “game” the system is tremendous given the role it can play in appointment, > tenure, promotion and grant applications. > > > > On the positive side, we might be able to get rid of a lot of > citation-needed tags. > > > > Kerry > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org');> > [mailto:wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org');>] > *On Behalf Of *Pine W > *Sent:* Friday, 6 February 2015 8:13 AM > *To:* Wiki Research-l; Raymond Leonard; Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration > [Public]; North American Cultural Partnerships > *Subject:* [Wiki-research-l] Altmetric.com now tracks Wikipedia citations > > > > FYI: > > http://www.altmetric.com/blog/new-source-alert-wikipedia/ > > Pine > > This is an Encyclopedia <https://www.wikipedia.org/> > > > > > > > > > * One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of > our past, in which we must delve The well of our future, The clear water we > must leave untainted for those who come after us, The fertile earth, in > which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands, And the broad > fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not > know. —Catherine Munro * > -- Sent from my mobile computing device of Lovecraftian complexity and horror.
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