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Coercive editorial practices
Some journal editors practice leverage over authors submitting their manuscripts to the journal and try to coerce them into citing published articles from the same journal to artificially inflate the journal’s impact factor. This series of posts will help authors understand how to identify a coercive citation request by an editor and how to deal effectively with such requests without ruining their chances of publication in the journal.
Some journal editors ask authors to include inappropriate or irrelevant citations in their papers in an effort to artificially inflate the journal's impact factor. If…
- Caven Mcloughlin
- October 9, 2017
Some journal editors ask authors to include inappropriate or irrelevant citations in their papers in an effort to artificially inflate the journal's impact factor. If…
- Caven Mcloughlin
- October 9, 2017
Journal editors sometimes ask authors to cite a few relevant articles from the journal to increase their citation count. But what if the editor hands over a whole list of irrelevant articles from…
- Kakoli Majumder
- August 18, 2017