Dr. Strangelove or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the citations

02/21/2020
by   Alberto Saracco, et al.
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Citations are getting more and more important in the career of a researcher. But how to use them in the best possible way? This is a satirical paper, showing a bad trend currently happening in citation trends, due to intensive use of citation metrics. I am putting this on the arXiv and on Researchgate. Should you be interested to publish this paper on a journal of which you are editor, let me know.

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