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Re:Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in ne... by antpol on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @11:51PM (#20764487)
Not to mention the politics of adding prominent names from your University/Institute to the list of authors to improve the chances of paper acceptance to competitive journals and conferences
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Re:Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in ne... by godelski on Thursday August 22, 2019 @03:30PM (#20771558)
A lot of publications now want you to do anonymous authors because of this. Though it's always pretty easy to tell what University something came out of, so the prestige of a university still plays a role.
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