We haven't solved how to prevent large-scale automated fake academic citation networks from artificially inflating a researcher's influence metrics.
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Coordinated citation manipulation, potentially aided by automated tools, can artificially inflate how influential a researcher or paper appears to be. Detecting and correcting for this manipulation remains an unresolved challenge in academic metrics.
Citation ID: WS00919
Title: We haven't solved how to prevent large-scale automated fake academic citation networks from artificially inflating a researcher's influence metrics.
URL: https://worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=919