The Sting

"Intrigued by a citation-boosting service that we unravelled during our investigation, we contacted the service while undercover as a fictional author, and managed to purchase 50 citations."

arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

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Figure 3 on the citation concentration index, or c2-index for short, is quite interesting.

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@albertcardona The c2-index sounds like something Jorge Hirsch would come up with.

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